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In januari kondigde vervoersmaatschappij De Lijn de ingebruikname aan van twee zelfrijdende shuttles in Leuven, die gaan rijden op lijn 16, de nieuwe lijn die het treinstation verbindt met het station en de gemeente Heverlee. Volgens De Lijn: \"een Europese primeur<\/a> \"voor een openbaarvervoerbedrijf.\"<\/p>

De euforie was echter van korte duur, want een proefrit met de zelfrijdende shuttle bleek een grote teleurstelling voor Dorien Meulenijzer, voormalig voorzitter van de gemeenteraad en zelf rolstoelgebruiker en adviseur op het gebied van toegankelijkheid. \"De<\/span> \"Bestelwagens zijn volstrekt ontoegankelijk voor rolstoelgebruikers,\" zei ze VRTnws<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

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In January, public transport company De Lijn announced the launch of two autonomous shuttles in Leuven, operating on line 16, the new line connecting the train station with the station and the borough of Heverlee. According to De Lijn, “a European first for a public transport company.”The euphoria was short-lived, however, as a test drive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":182786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[77170,77166,7,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belgium","category-design","category-mobility","category-public-transport","category-top-stories-today"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?fit=1122%2C525&ssl=1",1122,525,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?fit=300%2C140&ssl=1",300,140,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?fit=640%2C299&ssl=1",640,299,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?fit=640%2C299&ssl=1",640,299,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?fit=1122%2C525&ssl=1",1122,525,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?fit=1122%2C525&ssl=1",1122,525,true],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?fit=18%2C8&ssl=1",18,8,true],"related-thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=640%2C480&ssl=1",640,480,true],"gform-image-choice-sm":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"gform-image-choice-md":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=400%2C400&ssl=1",400,400,true],"gform-image-choice-lg":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=600%2C525&ssl=1",600,525,true],"mailchimp":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?fit=560%2C262&ssl=1",560,262,true],"unipress-phone":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=640%2C100&ssl=1",640,100,true],"unipress-tablet":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=1122%2C240&ssl=1",1122,240,true],"unipress-tablet-portrait":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=1122%2C180&ssl=1",1122,180,true],"unipress-tablet-landscape":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=1122%2C180&ssl=1",1122,180,true],"unipress-smartphone":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=1080%2C168&ssl=1",1080,168,true],"unipress-wide-screen":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-12-om-10.59.25.png?resize=1122%2C180&ssl=1",1122,180,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

In January, public transport company De Lijn announced the launch of two autonomous shuttles in Leuven, operating on line 16, the new line connecting the train station with the station and the borough of Heverlee. According to De Lijn, “a European first for a public transport company.”The euphoria was short-lived, however, as a test drive with the self-driving shuttle proved a major disappointment for Dorien Meulenijzer, former chair of the municipal council and herself a wheelchair user and accessibility consultant. “The vans are completely inaccessible for wheelchair users,” she told VRTnws.This content has been archived. 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