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Brussels State Secretary for Urban Development, Pascal Smet (Vooruit), is having a knock-down-and-drag-out quarrel with Brussels’ Minister for Mobility, Elke Van den Brandt (Groen). Smet is opposed to the plans to transform the A12 in Brussels, the so-called ‘Parkway 21’ […]
A few hundred taxi drivers demonstrated on Tuesday morning in front of the Brussels Parliament to oppose the proposed temporary ordinance for Uber-related workers. They argue that social gains are at stake in the face of extreme liberalization of the […]
On Monday, French Transport Minister, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (LREM), announced that the State will allocate an additional 500 million euros to develop the country’s EV charging network. The ‘Advenir’ program, which promotes the installation of publicly accessible charging points through incentives, […]
The Brussels Region intends to transform the last 3-km-long ending strip of the A12 into a green walkway. The latter was announced by Brussels’ Mobility Minister Elke (Groen) in an interview with newspapers De Morgen and La Libre. The three […]
Antwerp has inaugurated two ‘park and ride’ buildings, one in Merksem and another one in the district of Luchtbal. As of Wednesday, December 1st, commuters can park their car there and continue their trip using public or shared transport. The […]
De Werkvennootschap, the organization that supports large and complex mobility projects in Flanders, will revise four junctions of the eastern part of the Brussels ring road. These junctions – Quatre Bras/Vierarmen, Leonard, Groenendael and Jezus-Eik/Notre-Dame-au-Bois – are known by motorists […]
Last Saturday, the Antwerp Waterbus welcomed its two millionth passenger. Katrien Van Mieghem from Rupelmonde was honored in the presence of no one less than Flemish Minister of Mobility, Lydia Peeters (Open Vld). The former received a bunch of flowers […]
Chinese tech giant Baidu has started to put into service its Apollo Go robot taxis on the streets of Beijing, just as the Capital City authorized the commercial use of autonomous vehicles. Sixty-seven white SUVs with cameras and radars on […]
On Thursday, the Brussels government approved a decree that should help Brussels companies make their company car fleets greener. This will simplify the rules for obtaining the premium and make it accessible to a more significant number of entrepreneurs. Specifically, […]
On Thursday, the Brussels Government reached an agreement on the reform of taxi services and passenger transport services in general, including mobility services offered by professional limousine transport with drivers (LVC), the license under which Uber drivers in Brussels work. […]
On Thursday, November 25th, Brussels Airport has officially launched Stargate. In the next five years, Stargate, a consortium of 22 partners, will work out several projects aiming at greener aviation and making European airports more sustainable. The Stargate project will […]
The Brussels Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that drivers can no longer work with the Uber app. Concretely, the 2 000 Uber drivers will no longer be able to use the app as of Friday 18th, making the app […]
More than a quarter (27%) of workers in the port of Ghent use their bicycles to commute. That is twice as many as the Belgian average. Compared to the first survey Voka, the Flemish employers’ organization, organized in 2008, the […]
On Tuesday, Nicolas de Villiers, president of ‘Puy du Fou’ – the second-largest theme park in France – announced the launch of a private train offering a six-day five-night journey across France. “The train called ‘Le Grand Tour’ will be […]
The Flemish Minister of Energy Tinne Van der Straeten (Groen) has signed a political agreement in Copenhagen for the construction of an undersea high-tension cable between Belgium and Denmark. The 600-km-long cable connection, called Triton Link, will be used to […]
Diesel cars in Brussels emit a disproportionate amount of polluting substances in the air. A small number of those cars are responsible for of large part of the air pollution in Brussels. That is the conclusion of a remote-sensing study […]
The French-Dutch micro-mobility operator Dott deployed its first electric bikes in the nineteen Brussels communes on Monday morning. By the end of the year, there will be 2 000 of them. “With more options, we hope to encourage people of […]
Volvo Car Gent has to stop its car production for another two days due to a parts shortage. This time, it concerns the battery modules needed in electric and hybrid vehicles. One of Flanders’ largest industrial employers, Volvo Car Gent, […]
The Belgian government has cleared a significant hurdle to make the public railway company NMBS/SNCB the sole operator for passenger rail transport for ten years by publishing its intention on the official European channel. This is what Mobility Minister Georges […]
Brussels Airlines presented a new brand identity, including a new logo, on Thursday. The latter immediately caused some ‘turbulence’, as the new identity and logo were certainly not to the liking of several hundred employees that wanted the money spent […]
This week, Brussels public transport company MIVB/STIB will submit a building permit application for the future tram line 10 to Neder-Over-Heembeek. In February 2020, the route was already approved by the Brussels Region and the municipal authorities. The building permit […]
Last month, we announced that VRT, the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Community in Belgium, would provide cyclists with useful traffic information. In the meantime, the traffic app is operational and already 5 000 cyclists have downloaded it. The […]
The German micro-mobility provider, Tier Mobility, based in Berlin, has bought 100% of the shares of Nextbike, based in Leipzig, and a specialist in bike-sharing. Together they create a multimodal platform offering 250 000 vehicles in some 400 cities. The […]
The speed of e-scooters is now limited to 10 km/hour in 700 areas of Paris, including around the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower. This is what the three operators present in Paris reported on Monday. These areas are concentrated around […]
Air pollution is one of the most important environmental threats to human health, killing seven million people annually worldwide. However, figures are improving, states the European Environmental Agency (EEA) in a recent report ‘Health impacts of air pollution in Europe’. […]
The three federal Belgian Ministers for Mobility, Justice, and Internal Affairs have come together to create a national plan for road safety. With 32 different measures, some more mature than others, George Gilkinet (Écolo), Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD), and […]
Ginion Group has announced the most important decision in its history. All BMW and Mini dealerships will be sold to the Louyet Group, which has recently also taken over the Evere dealership from the importer. With this acquisition, Louyet Group […]
On Friday, the Flemish government gave the go-ahead for Mobilidata, a project that uses data to make traffic smoother, more sustainable, and safer. A consortium led by Be-Mobile, a Belgian company specializing in distributing traffic information, is steering the project. […]
Tesla chief Elon Musk has sold Tesla shares worth about 7 billion dollars, according to documents released by Musk on Wednesday and the American market regulator SEC on Friday. He did so after asking his 62 million followers on Twitter […]
The use of smart ANPR cameras can help catch motorists using their smartphones while driving, traffic safety institute Vias concludes. End 2020, Vias did the test and caught 1,5% of drivers red-handed at the improper use of their smartphones. The […]
Ghent will install 800 new charging stations for electric cars in the coming four years. TotalEnergies will be responsible for the installation, like in Antwerp. Next year, the city will already provide 244 additional charging stations in semi-public places, like […]
On Wednesday, Flemish Minister of Mobility and Public Works, Lydia Peeters (Open Vld), has kicked off the MIA project for Limburg in Herk-de-Stad. MIA stands for ‘Mobiliteit Innovatief Aanpakken’ and is a new approach to tackle unsafe traffic situations. The […]
Belgium sits in 49th place in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022, far below the European average and upcoming nations like India (10th place) and China (37th place). According to the latest ranking published on Tuesday, the country loses […]
On Tuesday, Antwerp has officially inaugurated the new ferry connection between the left and right banks of the river Scheldt. The ‘Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde’, as the boat is called, replaces the 90-year old ‘Simon Stevin’ and is far more sustainable. […]
On Monday night, the first of the 58 brand new and ultramodern trams has arrived in the Noorderlaan depot in Antwerp. The rest of the order – a €100 million investment – will be delivered gradually before the end of […]
