Finally, someone who says the Dutch names! Usually people always go for French despite Dutch making more sense as it's closer to English and also in many cases the original name. Congrats to you! Thanks for an enjoyable guide to the premetro. This video will serve as a historical document in a few years time!
Nathan is eigenlijk Nederlander, dus vandaar… Ik ben trouwens franstalig maar gebruik altijd beide namen wanneer ik Engels spreek. Eigenlijk is Brussel zo vefranst geraakt dat een heleboel nederlandstalige Brusselaren in hun eigen taal de Franse namen van straten en stations hanteren ! Eerlijk gezegd, vind ik dat jammer.
Great video! The big issue between Zuidstation and Anneessens isn't really the curve near Zuidstation though, but rather the tunnel near Lemonnier (and the existing level crossing you've shown). The tunnel predates the premetro (Lemonnier was built in 1958 and the premetro Noord-Lemonnier in 1976) and its dimensions are insufficient for a proper metro. The government and the public transit company chose to build a new tunnel around Lemonnier to be able to keep Lemonnier in service during the construction (something they might regret now, since costs are spiralling due to issues with the soil).
So many cool stations in Bruxelles, I love close to the city no idea why I watched a video about my local transit system. Too bad you didn’t went to the tram 44 from Montgomery to tervuren which pass through the forest. Also the trains are quite nice I belgium and could deserve some appreciation.
Gare du Midi i.e. Midi means noon in French where the sun is located at noon. It's locate in the south direction. Gare du Midi (Noon's Station) = Gare du Sud (South station). In France le Midi is a the region in the south of France.
Yes and the same goes in Italian with “mezzogiorno” and in Hungarian with “dél”. Budapest’s “déli pályaudvar” is both the city’s “South” and “noon” station, just like Brussels’s midi.
The metro line 3 is nearly canceled, it gors out of budget (like 10x more expensive) and they do it so badly and so much near the surface that they go into basement and have a lot of infiltrations. If it still goes on they will have 11 years of delay, actually the price of the line is estimate a 4.4 billion € instead of something like 500 millions in the beggining.
You asked why there are transfer-barriers within stations between platforms: They're mainly placed between tram and metro-line platforms, to ensure that everyone is forced to validate their ticket, as trams (like buses) have no direct enforcement of ticket scanning (Yes you are meant to scan your ticket in the tram, but many simply don't). Hypothetically you could thus use this "flaw" in the system to bypass the metro-station barriers, by catching a tram one stop ahead of your desired metro-station and riding it into the station. Nowadays this obviously isnt possible anymore, as all metro-stations have transfer-barriers at both entrances and exits, technically fixing this flaw. So the question is, why do the transfer-barriers still exist? Well, it's to reduce illegal ridership, but actually also to collect data! Indeed just like the scanners inside buses and trams are a way to messure rider behaviour, the barriers are just another mean to collect data. STIB/MIVB uses it to observe the routes riders take, transfer times, travel times, etc. and make adjustments based on that.
No, they should not have torn down half of the tram network. They did it to make room for cars. They could have always added metros later without the extra premetro steps, like amsterdam did
Because phonetically there are the same (as in the “ear” in year and “ier” in Rogier). Btw, I am Belgian and perfectly bilingual in French and English.
Belgium doesn’t even exist 😂 Just like Austria. I challenge anyone here to tell me anything going on in any of these 2 fictional places without doing research? And I must add I’m from the Netherlands so I’d hear about it pretty quick.
I hate the Brussels Metro. My gf still lives in Brussels but she moves next year so I'll be happy to almost never use it again afterwards. Brussels is decaying before our eyes. Drug use and population change. A city of despair. High time to move out if you can.
@@leonpaelinckreally depends where you live but for the most part it's great, just the north and south stations earned Brussels the title of "the most dangerous city in Europe"
