Network regional express of Brussels

See also: Network regional express

the RER of Brussels is a project of railway network, currently under development, intended to offer new possibilities of fast connections and at frequency increased in a radius of 30 kilometers in and around Brussels, covering a territory inhabited by more than two million people.

Objectives

The Région of Brussels-Capital is the most important basin of use of the country. More half of this employment are occupied by workers coming from the other areas, including one important proportion lies in the territory covered by the project. Several hundreds of thousands of individual vehicles converge each day towards the city, generating big problems of mobility, pollution and wasting of energy.

The RER is one of the answers to these increasing problems which lead to the saturation of public space. Only 20% of the Navetteur S days laborer use public transport to go to work, the objective is to double this proportion.

It must also make it possible to improve displacement inside the city, in complement with the grid systems jointly existing.

History of the project

The idea of the creation of the network dates from the beginning of the year 1990. A first project was published in 1995, by a trade union of study especially created. The startup of the first lines were then planned as from the year 2002.

The institutional complexity of the Belgium caused thereafter many delays and carryforwards for a realization which requires the agreement and the financing of the Federal state and the three Areas of the country, as well as the collaboration of four companies of Public transport, SNCB, the STIB, De Lijn and tce.

Certain sections caused the opposition of committees of residents and organizations of defense of classified sites as it is the case for the setting with four ways of line 161 between Boitsfort and Ottignies in the part which crosses the Forêt of Look after.

The first work finally started only in 2005, the startup of the unit being programmed for the year 2012. However a delay was announced and certain infrastructures would not be brought into service before 2016.

The realization

Most of the network borrows the layout of the existing railway lines. The increase in the frequencies and the users however requires important work of infrastructures:
  • put at four ways of certain sections to allow the circulation of the RER on ways independent of those used by the international trains
  • demolition and rebuilding of several road bridges which span the widened ways
  • constructions of additional stagnation points
  • installation of walls anti-noises
  • installations of the stations of Brussels existing (28) or rebuildings of some of them
  • construction of the railway tunnel Schuman-Josaphat
  • installation of the correspondences of the grid systems jointly urban and suburban
  • installation of parking spaces the accesses of the stations of departure

The network

These lines will be supplemented by lines of bus circulating in site propre.^

In figures

  • 640 trains per day
  • 350 km of railway lines
  • 120 stations and stagnation points
  • 25 million travellers per annum (against 13 million today).

External bonds

  • the RER on the site of SNCB

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