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Since the second wave of relaxing the corona measures, car traffic on the Flemish roads has increased by 10%. More stores are open and more social contacts are allowed. The usual structural congestion problems stay away, but traffic pressure has […]
The free Dutch traffic and navigation app warning drivers for traffic jams or speed checks, is launching a package delivery service, Flitsmeister Pickup. It invites its 1,7 million users to participate in an ‘Uber-like’ parcel delivery service for storekeepers. Retailers […]
Flemish Minister of Mobility and Public Works, Lydia Peeters (Open Vld), is planning to invest 2,2 billion euros in both her policy fields. That is what she announced in a press release on Saturday. The money will be allocated to […]
The accidents on the Belgian roads were twice as fatal during the lockdown than before, although the total number of casualties declined. That is one of the conclusions of the traffic safety barometer for the first quarter of traffic institute […]
Although the number of cars on the Dutch roads has halved since the lockdown, the number of traffic deaths hardly went down. The actual accidents also are more serious and make more victims, mostly among cyclists. According to figures from […]
Some 340 bus and coach companies, responsible for collective transport of passengers, are organizing a symbolic protest march to Brussels on Wednesday. With this video campaign, the so-called ‘e-march’, they ask the federal and regional authorities to guarantee their survival […]
Twenty percent of passengers will no longer use public transport when the corona measures will be further lifted. Among these former public transport users, 63% prefer to switch to a ‘virus-free’ private car, 18% opts for the bicycle, 1% for […]
Sales of bicycles in Belgium have decreased by 50 to 70% since the lockdown. That is the conclusion of car and bicycle service federation Traxio. Online sales, however, have grown. Since the lockdown, sales of speed pedelecs almost halved (-48,4%) […]
In 2019, the average ecological score of the car fleet in Flanders went up, but CO2 emissions didn’t go down that much as in previous years. That is what the Flemish Department for the Environment communicated on Thursday. ‘Eco score’ […]
Some 600 bridges in Flanders are in a bad or even terrible condition. And the list is only growing longer. In 2017, 28 bridges needed urgent restoration. Today, there are 44. On some of them, concrete is crumbling, others show […]
Almost half (45%) of the Belgian companies want to continue teleworking after the corona crisis. That is what human resources company Acerta learned from a survey in April among 501 respondents. Most of them were CEO or human resources managers […]
Stein van Oosteren, a Dutchman living in one of Paris’ suburbs, is one of the initiators who managed to convince the Paris authorities to invest heavily – 300 million euros – in bicycle infrastructure. Van Oosteren gathered all French bicycle […]
Flanders will probably meet its climate targets. Not because of its effective policy but rather due to the corona crisis. That is what a prognosis of environmental organization Bond Better Leefmilieu (BBL) says. The organization warns that it is just […]
The air quality in Europe has improved spectacularly as a consequence of the corona measures and has prevented 11 300 premature deaths. That is the conclusion of the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air in Helsinki (Finland). In […]
Despite all misery, the corona crisis also has a positive side: the number of traffic victims since the lockdown has dropped significantly. “Almost 70%,” according to an estimation by traffic safety institute Vias. The organization fears a possible sharp increase […]
The bicycle will become the ‘King of Kings’ in the city center of Tongeren. As of June, the entire inner city, together with the existing pedestrian zone, will become one large bicycle zone. The zone will cover 53 streets where […]
The vast oil and gas fields in the southern United States emit twice as much methane as the American authorities believe. This immense contribution to the climate problem was detected out of space by the Dutch space tool Tropomi. Tropomi […]
According to the figures of the Flemish Traffic Center (Vlaams Verkeerscentrum, VV), traffic on the Flemish roads has become heavier since the Easter holidays. “One week after the Easter holidays, freight traffic increased by 3%, and car traffic even by […]
On Friday evening, the French state (14,3% owner of the group Air France KLM) has unveiled its rescue plan – about ten billion euros in total – for the airline companies. The French branch will receive seven billion euros, of […]
According to the new FQA of the national crisis center, garages and tire centers from now on are allowed to change winter tires, provided that the rules about social distancing are respected. Until now, they were only allowed to execute […]
Parcel delivery services in the Netherlands are breaking all possible records. Since the corona crisis, online shopping is booming, especially in Belgium. PostNL and DHL, together representing 90% of the market, have recruited thousands of extra workers to deliver all […]
“Face masks will be inevitable to guarantee the safety of passengers and staff,” says Sophie Dutordoir, CEO of public transport company NMBS/SNCB. According to the CEO, there won’t be a problem when the corona measures will be lifted gradually, but […]
On Monday, several road works have (re)started on the Flemish roads and highways. Now that traffic has reduced significantly due to the corona measures, the situation is ideal for making some progress. ‘Non-essential trips’ Numerous road works have started at […]
Antwerp is preparing the introduction of the first bicycle zone in the entire Antwerp region. “More than ten streets will be rearranged to give absolute priority to cyclists,” says Alderman of Mobility in Wijnegem, Tom Tachelet (Dorpspartij Durf!). ‘Bicycle streets’ […]
When the corona measures were introduced, the number of road works in Flanders dropped from 186 to 80. In the meantime, the Agency for Roads and Traffic (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer, AWV) restarted 62% (115) of the works. The figures […]
Last year, the number of trains – mostly passenger trains – running the red light decreased slightly: from 87 in 2018 to 85 in 2019. Railway manager Infrabel, however, emphasizes there were no really dangerous situations. Infringements 2019 was not […]
Since the introduction of all ‘corona measures’, traffic in the Netherlands has decreased by up to one-third. Depending on the corona crisis, it might take until 2025 for road traffic to exceed the 2019 level again. That is the prognosis […]
The Flemish government is going to relax the regulation to give investors of energy projects more time to finish their projects favorably. It is Flemish Minister of Energy, Zuhal Demir (N-VA), who took the initiative. She wants to avoid that […]
Numerous platforms of the sharing economy are struggling due to the corona crisis. At the same, however, the crisis shows the power of their business model. Question is how soon consumers will ‘forget’ about the bacteriophobia when it comes to […]
The European Commission wants to keep the outer borders of the European Union closed until May 15th. The measure is intended to prevent the further spreading of the coronavirus. National measure “The experience of the member states and other countries […]
Now that everybody has to stay home, air pollution and CO2 emissions have decreased, and plant and animal life prospers. Still, let’s not misjudge the situation, warns Hans Bruyninckx, executive director of the European Environment Agency (EEA). “This pandemic is […]
Germany has decided to keep the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands open for traffic. This in spite of the corona crisis. “Health care only works across borders,” the German Minister-President of the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, says. […]
Two of the most important meetings of the United Nations will be postponed until next year. Both the climate summit and a summit about biodiversity are delayed as a consequence of the corona pandemic. COP26 delayed The United Nations are […]
Brussels Airport has welcomed a new freight airline company on Thursday. The Chinese Suparna Airlines will fly three times a week to and from Brucargo, the cargo department of the airport in Zaventem. Suparna Airlines Suparna Airlines will use a […]
On Thursday, the Belgian Transport Federation UPTR has asked to postpone the payments of kilometer taxes. Due to the corona crisis, the number of trucks on the road has decreased by 30%. That is why the sector federation is asking […]
