Straatparkeren in Antwerpse binnenstad vanaf augustus enkel nog voor bewoners en vergunninghouders

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  1. Bart De Wever claimed that Gent would turn into a “provincial city” if they kept reducing access for cars.

    Now he does it himself a few years later.

  2. Dat mogen ze van mij in elke stad doen. Straten zouden zo veel aangenamer zijn als ze niet vol stonden met auto’s.

  3. Fantastic initiative. They should do this in Leuven too. I lived in Leuven for 4 years. Every time it was school vacation, suddenly there’s parking a volonte, on every street at every hour of the day.. School starts = no more parking anywhere. Goddamn students drive their car to leuven and park there all week, and you as an actual inhabitant have to spend 30 minutes every day searching for parking. I don’t even live in Leuven anymore, and I’ll be gladly banned from parking on the streets there.

  4. I’m currently in Turin and using the public transit available here has been amazing. We take the bus to the city, we use the metro to get from one place to another within the city, or a bus if that options makes more sense. It even has trams, but we haven’t used those. Everything else we walk, which is amazing because a lot of Italian cities are dense so you get everywhere so quick. You never have to wait for a metro, seriously they just kept coming. A bus comes every ~10 minutes. You have a bar (or a store, literally everything) always a walking distance away, so if you need to drink or anything, you can do that at any point. Cars are still a thing, but it’s not as insane as Belgium. It honestly makes me sad how car dependant Belgium is. Cars don’t bring freedom, being able to go anywhere without having to focus all your attention on the road, not having to look out for parking, not having to pay for gas, is true freedom.

    I know Brussels has all of these things, but with how infested Brussels is by cars, it just makes the overall city unpleasant. Antwerp would probably be incredible with all of these public transit options as well. It just sucks that Belgium is populated so sparsely. I’ve been watching u/NotJustBikes and when you learn how pleasant travel could be, you see carbrain everywhere.

    With all of that being said, I’m happy more action is being taken against cars is cities, now hopefully public transit will improve (everywhere, not just cities), but knowing our government, I doubt it.

    Thank you for coming to my ted talk, hopefully no controversial opinions were mentioned.

  5. Iemand een gokje wanneer we het Apache-artikel mogen verwachten dat N-VA linkt aan de uitbaters van de ondergrondse parkings?

    Lijkt me gezien eerdere schandalen in ‘t Stad bijna onvermijdelijk.

  6. Grappig hoe bewoners van hoogbouw geen parkeervergunning meer krijgen. Moet je maar wat minder avocado’s eten en een eigen huis kopen zeker?

  7. Anyone know how this will affect people with disability´s? I am wheelchair bound and cant just park in underground parking a couple of streets away. Especially because the pavement is often not that wheelchair friendly in the inner city.

  8. It’s funny seeing people try to give a negative spin on this just because they don’t like Bart De Wever or the NVA. I think this is a great initiative and I hope it gets expanded to my district soon.

  9. Maar, maar,… als ik dan eentje van Redlights wil gaan vogelen gaat het mij nog meer kosten. Die ondergrondse parkings zijn schijteduur!

  10. “Er komt een digitaal systeem met nummerplaten. Als je een feestje geeft, kan je de nummerplaten doorgeven tot kort voor je bezoekers aankomen. Zo kan je hen parkeerrecht geven” – WAUW

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