Public transport De Lijn will use tour buses in East and West Flanders on busy routes so that students are not left behind at the bus stop because the bus is full. The extra buses will be available from April 15, the first Monday after the Easter holidays, and will continue to transport students until … Read more
Gent At the De Lijn depot in Gentbrugge, a spontaneous action broke out among the staff on Saturday morning after several cases of aggression on Friday. This is reported by Bart Reyns, secretary of ACV Public Services. He expects that there will be virtually no trams and buses in the city center of Ghent on … Read more
vandalism Buses on line 36, which serves Linkeroever (Antwerp), will not depart after 7 p.m. for an indefinite period. The trade union BTB-ABVV announced this after another bus was damaged on Wednesday. During emergency consultations, transport company De Lijn, the trade unions and the competent security services decided on Thursday afternoon that buses on line … Read more
Transport The Flemish public transport company De Lijn is taking measures after a sixteen-year-old girl became stuck between the doors of a bus in early December. She was dragged for miles. On December 5 last year, a sixteen-year-old girl became stuck between the closing doors of a De Lijn bus on the connection between Steenokkerzeel … Read more
Tiktok video A remarkable video is circulating on TikTok in which a De Lijn driver refuses to let a woman get off the front of the bus. She then calls to the passenger: “Take off your headscarf, we are in Belgium.” The transport company will “take appropriate measures” against the driver. The incident took place … Read more
De Lijn has already implemented 30 adjustments since the introduction of the basic accessibility plan. It concerns changes to a stop or the hours of a journey to better align with school hours. In total, more than a hundred adjustments will follow. The transport company announced this on Sunday, a month after the rollout of … Read more