Due to the opposition of the rich people living in Uccle and neighbouring localities.
Have you had a good look at the ring around Gent ?
Don’t give them ideas…
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I somehow like the way Erps-Kwerps is bigger then Vilvoorde
Because the missing portion would run through residential areas in Uccle and the forêt de soignes. So it would have cost a lot of money to build it since you’d have needed tunnels not to completely destroy these areas. It just wasn’t worth it and it was much easier to just continue towards the highway to France.
As the others have said Uccle is quite an affluent area, and the bordering rhode-saint-genese/sint-genesius-rode is also extreme rich area with massive mansions (ferrero used to live here for example), but also normal people in between. Though the issue Rhode-Saint-genese/sint-genesius-rode has is, the fact that some people wanted to join brussels and others wo didnt want too etc. (apologies if that is too briefly summarized)
So i guess due to the massive private properties owned by wealthy people and the regional dispute brussels ring wont become “circular”
Because we value our forest, we don’t need extra traffic and pollution here.
Unpopular opinion: there should be a connection between Ittre and the A8 somewhere between Rebecq and Tubize.Â
Most answers here are wrong – it was mainly done this way because of existing infrastructure and the connection to existing highways.
It was up to Wallonia I suppose.
Same reason there is shit public transport so some of those parts of Brussels. Rich people’s opinions are seen as more valid.
The foret de soignes is a primeval forest, very protected. It’s a fraction (around 12-15%) of what it was around the time Belgium was created in 1830.
Also, f*ck cars mate.
motorways only go through poor people’s neighbourhoods. That’s the rule
Because Wallonia always wants more of everything lmao. (JK I love Wallonia)
Wallonië had to pay for that part
It is for consistency.
Gent doesn’t have a round ring road, neither do Antwerp, Mons or Liège. The one in Charleroi also as a weird shape.
It’s just what we do in Belgium. One would think a ring road is simple and straightforward but we like to do something special… :-p
The same reason the Brussels metro doesn’t go to Uccle/Ukkel
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Because of rich people living there.
There some annoying humans who live there…
Politics and rich people, as always.
[https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A87728719](https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A87728719)
Due to the opposition of the rich people living in Uccle and neighbouring localities.
Have you had a good look at the ring around Gent ?
Don’t give them ideas…
[ Removed by Reddit ]
I somehow like the way Erps-Kwerps is bigger then Vilvoorde
Because the missing portion would run through residential areas in Uccle and the forêt de soignes. So it would have cost a lot of money to build it since you’d have needed tunnels not to completely destroy these areas. It just wasn’t worth it and it was much easier to just continue towards the highway to France.
As the others have said Uccle is quite an affluent area, and the bordering rhode-saint-genese/sint-genesius-rode is also extreme rich area with massive mansions (ferrero used to live here for example), but also normal people in between. Though the issue Rhode-Saint-genese/sint-genesius-rode has is, the fact that some people wanted to join brussels and others wo didnt want too etc. (apologies if that is too briefly summarized)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Genesius-Rode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Genesius-Rode)
So i guess due to the massive private properties owned by wealthy people and the regional dispute brussels ring wont become “circular”
Because we value our forest, we don’t need extra traffic and pollution here.
Unpopular opinion: there should be a connection between Ittre and the A8 somewhere between Rebecq and Tubize.Â
Most answers here are wrong – it was mainly done this way because of existing infrastructure and the connection to existing highways.
It was up to Wallonia I suppose.
Same reason there is shit public transport so some of those parts of Brussels. Rich people’s opinions are seen as more valid.
The foret de soignes is a primeval forest, very protected. It’s a fraction (around 12-15%) of what it was around the time Belgium was created in 1830.
Also, f*ck cars mate.
motorways only go through poor people’s neighbourhoods. That’s the rule
Because Wallonia always wants more of everything lmao. (JK I love Wallonia)
Wallonië had to pay for that part
It is for consistency.
Gent doesn’t have a round ring road, neither do Antwerp, Mons or Liège. The one in Charleroi also as a weird shape.
It’s just what we do in Belgium. One would think a ring road is simple and straightforward but we like to do something special… :-p
The same reason the Brussels metro doesn’t go to Uccle/Ukkel
Cquse they hate waloon
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