Where would you create a train line if you could ?

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  4. Maaseik – anywhere, it’s atleast an half hour drive till the first station where I live and no free parking in genk when you are there. Shitty situation

  5. Nivelles – Ottignies.
    It’s a pain in the neck to travel between thèses cities by public transport.

  10. Just make it so that not all trains need to go through the 3 stations in the Brussels centre
    That way a delay in these stations doesn’t fuck up the entire schedule in the rest of the country.

  18. I know they are planning to build a tram, but it would be good to have one now already, parallel to A12. It is mind boggling that we have a direct train between Antwerp and Brussels and all the other cities in between are ignored. I live in Willebroek and it takes me 20 minutes to get to A12 because so many people are commuting to Brussels/Antwerp. It’s honestly ridiculous that it takes 70 minutes by car and almost 120 minutes by public transport to get to Schuman roundabout, even though it’s barely 35 kms away from from me…

  19. Belgium is remarkably well covered by rail lines (second place for track coverage per sq km in Europe behind only Switzerland ([source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_transport_network_size))), so there are not that many obvious gaps in coverage. Still, some possible improvements:

    * Build a true high speed line between Brussels and Antwerp (the shitty typical belgian compromise solution that is the 25N line is kinda sad)
    * Cross country connections and services (For example Gent-Terneuzen, Hamont-Weert, Hasselt-Maastricht…)
    * Upgrade the 6 track Brussels-midi Brussels-nord corridor or provide a bypass for IC trains.
    * A north-south connection in German speaking Belgium / Ardennes could be nice

    Also, I’d like to see some trains run from 9 pm – 6 am in my area (doesn’t need to be frequent, just *some* service at all…)

  20. Brussels – Wavre

    Dinant – Givet

    Brussels – Luxembourg but with high speed trains

  21. Reestablish abolished lines: Hasselt – Maastricht; Hasselt – Neerpelt; Neerpelt – Weert; Neerpelt – Eindhoven (this latter one, unfortunately will never be possible again).

  23. Something something a connector to Eindhoven (NL) (and s’Hertogenbosch? or Nijmegen?) via Leuven or Hasselt.

    Like, idk, Brussel-Zuid, Leuven, Mol, Eindhoven (NL), s’Hertogenbosch (NL), Utrecht-Centraal (NL).

    Or something like Brussel-Zuid, Leuven, Hasselt, Maaseik, Roermond (NL), Venlo (NL), Nijmegen-Centraal (NL), Arnhem-Centraal (NL).

    More plausibly, Gent-Sint-Pieters – Geraardsbergen – Mons (*there’s actually two omnibuses, but they are desynced, you need to wait 30-40 minutes in Geraardsbergen – if they were synced it’d be faster than going through Brussels even though these are omnibuses*) – although perhaps that is because the Mons-Brussels connector is terribly slow, due to stopping in a bunch of places and generally driving at low speed.

  27. Bastogne – Arlon or Bastogne – Namur

    Because it’s a shame that a city of 16k inhabitants in the middle of nowhere is inaccessible by train. The trip by bus is a pain.

    Also, Bastogne is a center for tourism and already has a (non functioning) train station, so there is a case for it.

  31. The “Iron Rhine”, a more direct link for the transport of goods between the Port of Antwerp (and Zeebrugge) and the German Ruhr.

    More tracks dedicated to freight trains.

    One freight train is the equivalent of about 50 trucks. It makes a difference during rush hours.

  32. Hasselt-Maastricht via maasmechelen.
    Why isn’t west-Limburg (be) connected with east-Limburg (nl)?

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