>The mayor of Liège, Willy Demeyer, expressed surprise on Sunday in a press release at a possible new postponement of the tram’s entry into service in the spring of 2024, reacting to rumours circulating in this regard. In November, he had recalled that no new delay would be accepted, except because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
>Initially scheduled for October 2022, the official inauguration of the tram in Liege had already been postponed for the first time to May 2023, due to the health crisis. The floods that ravaged the Liège region in mid-July then caused a further postponement of three months, for implementation in August 2023.
>Tram’Ardent, the consortium in charge of building the tram in Liège, then formally denied, on 29 November last, any postponement of the tram’s entry into service in 2024. However, rumours persist.
>For several months now, “faced with the accumulation of delays”, Willy Demeyer has been making repeated approaches to the Walloon Transport Operator (principal) and the regional Minister for Mobility, Philippe Henry, “in order to obtain precise clarification of Tram’Ardent’s intentions in terms of deadlines”, he stressed in a press release. The minister, OTW and the mayor also demanded a “realistic” schedule from the manufacturer.
>However, according to the City of Liège, “despite this ongoing support for the project, it has to be said that the deadlines initially announced have not been met”. “From Monday onwards, the City’s services will contact those of the contractor in order to consider the next phases of the project and the best way of speeding up the process as much as possible,” concluded Mr Demeyer.
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>The mayor of Liège, Willy Demeyer, expressed surprise on Sunday in a press release at a possible new postponement of the tram’s entry into service in the spring of 2024, reacting to rumours circulating in this regard. In November, he had recalled that no new delay would be accepted, except because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
>Initially scheduled for October 2022, the official inauguration of the tram in Liege had already been postponed for the first time to May 2023, due to the health crisis. The floods that ravaged the Liège region in mid-July then caused a further postponement of three months, for implementation in August 2023.
>Tram’Ardent, the consortium in charge of building the tram in Liège, then formally denied, on 29 November last, any postponement of the tram’s entry into service in 2024. However, rumours persist.
>For several months now, “faced with the accumulation of delays”, Willy Demeyer has been making repeated approaches to the Walloon Transport Operator (principal) and the regional Minister for Mobility, Philippe Henry, “in order to obtain precise clarification of Tram’Ardent’s intentions in terms of deadlines”, he stressed in a press release. The minister, OTW and the mayor also demanded a “realistic” schedule from the manufacturer.
>However, according to the City of Liège, “despite this ongoing support for the project, it has to be said that the deadlines initially announced have not been met”. “From Monday onwards, the City’s services will contact those of the contractor in order to consider the next phases of the project and the best way of speeding up the process as much as possible,” concluded Mr Demeyer.
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