De Lijn decides to lower the amount of services they provide because they are understaffed and have old busses but meanwhile they get more subsidised next year + they have this god awful ad running on the radio which is 1. Annoying because of the earwurm "Meer appen" is but 2. Showing how wrong their priorities are if their biggest improvement is their app which makes it more difficult for older people to get around.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/11/15/de-lijn-aanpassingen-in-aanbod/

by Ambitious_N1ghtw0lf

8 comments

  1. Most buses in the entire Wallonia got replaced in the last decade, which is good, because that replaced some buses from the 70s.

    What happened in Flanders in that time?

  2. Right so , spreading awareness on a platform that is quite popular with the older generation about an app so they can learn about it, is not a decent way of helping older people get accustomed to it?

    Or lowering the amount of services to improve the ones they have with their budget and maybe increasing them once the budget shows it is possible, is bad money management?

    Target the ones who keep the budget of the lijn so low and refuse to give the money for improvements, not de lijn itself.

  3. I understand your frustrations, but it’s the IT department that updates the app, not the drivers. Whether the IT departement updates the app or not will have no impact on the number of drivers that are available.

    Recruitment of new drivers is a very high priority at De Lijn with job days, recruitment campaigns and a bonus for employees that bring a new driver on board. But you can’t force people to become bus drivers.

    Source: I work in the IT department of De Lijn, but not on the app, I don’t work on customer facing software.

  4. All i can think about is the blind man i pass by everyday will have to change his whole daily routine AGAIN just to get to work

  5. they only care about what star restaurant they can eat next, as long as the money keeps flowing uncontrollably it will vanish

  6. Been saying for years that de lijn needs to be scrapped and something new needs to come in it’s place. It’s beyond saving.

  7. Well either using PT is too cheap – by far the largest part of De Lijn funds are subsidies, not tickets or subscriptions. Or they’re under funded by a government that needs to spend billions less instead of more.

  8. So I followed this presentation of the ceo of delijn the other day at the world day “modal shift” in hasselt.

    He said that their target audience is elderly people since they are the biggest group who use OV at this point. I was like; no.. your audience should be all people who need to commute commute. If you don’t target them, how else is modal shift going to happen? If you can’t attract them, seek out why this is.

    Then he said that the busses are only full at peak times, or as in when people commute. So they should only focus on upgrading capacity on peak times. I was like no, you should increase overal capacity as in interval time. Ofcourse, if your bus only passes twice an hour, you aren’t going to take that bus to a hobby at 8 pm, or take it to the grocery store.

    Also, it was not him but some speaker said that not all car traffic can be reduced. As an example this person said that people still need a car to go shopping once a week to this big box store. I was like, so this is supposed to be an expert but he can’t acknowledge that the elephant in the room is that all mayor grocery stores almost only open shop on stroads? Yes you have an expensive carrefour express or delhaize in the city center. But we need those colruyts, aldis, lidls or AH an Jumbos aswell in the centers. That is wat mixed use is about.

    We have a long (st)road ahead

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