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How much would it have to cost to dissuade you from driving in Brussels?
There are small signs of improvement for the world’s worst traffic city.
Diplomats in Brussels are facing a crackdown by the authorities after refusing to pay almost 1,000 fines. The city has nearly 1,000 outstanding traffic tickets and parking fines.
Crossing any major road on foot in Brussels can be risky at the best of times.
The Flemish socialist party wants to turn Brussels’ main thoroughfares into one-way streets to ease the city’s chronic traffic congestion and make it more liveable.
A massive pile-up yesterday morning involving more than 130 vehicles closed the A19 motorway at Zonnebeke, West Flanders, for the entire day and evening.
Hailing a taxi this week in Brussels will be harder than usual. Until Thursday this week, up to 200 affiliated drivers with three Brussels taxi associations will take strike action every morning.
Traffic in Brussels was severely disrupted yesterday as 250 taxi drivers blocked roads in protest at the introduction of a digital taximeter imposed by the Brussels-Capital Region.
Flemish transport minister Hilde Crevits has approved a €270,000 budget to continue the programme that sees road accident victims giving talks to secondary school students.
