Brussels Brussels Tram Route 44
The tram system or tram Brussels is a transport system in Brussels, Belgium is the 16th largest tram system in the world by the length of the road, and in 2012 carried some 123 5 million passengers 3 In 2016, Brussels tram system consists of 17 tram lines 4 with three lines T3, T4 and T7 qualify as PREMETRO lines 5 from 2011, total length of the route of the tram system was 138 9 km 86 3 mi 2 making it one of the largest tram networks in Europe Its development has shown a lot of planners who face local public transport dilemmas the Brussels tram system also has a number of features interesting.
The first trams pulled by horses were introduced in Brussels in 1869, from the Porte de Namur in the Bois de la Cambre 6 The first electric tram came to Brussels in 1894 6.
The system exists in a context of local somewhat unusual government because Brussels is an autonomous region, as an enclave within Flanders, although about 3 3 kilometers from Wallonia to the nearest point This means that are necessary between Brussels STIB own three-way deals MIVB Lijn in Flanders and TEC in Wallonia.
STIB is seen as a provider of mobility rather than public transport, and a 49 share in the franchise Cambio carsharing The agglomeration of 19 Brussels communes nearest commuter belt is also served by a network enough dense mainline card MOBIB contactless chip can be used on buses, trams and underground, and gradually extended to other modes, although it is not yet accepted by de Lijn or TEC, a simple tariff system, allows unlimited changes with a period of one hour for 2 50 when it is purchased from the driver 2 10 from a cash dispenser.
The number of users has increased, and user-friendly features that have grown by custom and practice using this example, passengers open the doors by pressing a green strip on the center post in the PCC trams or light button on the Flexity trams, and drivers usually make a point to wait for latecomers However, overcrowding during peak hours and on weekends is good Fare dodging is deemed high enough, despite periodic enforcement campaigns, and it is processed by the ticket barriers installed in all metro stations from 2013, the obligation to check on and the system is gradually introduced.
Platforms Boileau station, clearly showing the heights double platform.
From 2013, there are 19 tram lines, 1 totaling 138 9 km 86 3 E, 2 and serving most parts of the city, including two partial annular tracks T7 and T92 Tram lines have a touch very varied, including street through narrow streets in the neighborhoods of the working class T81 lines and T83, paved central reservation, track reserved in a park and wood T44, traffic controlled signal in tunnels lines PREMETRO T3 and T4 the North-South axis and T7, and short sections in section of the old road T18, closed in 2007 Almost all trams are at both ends and all are double-sided, and while some remain stub termini T4, T51 , T97, most loops the road model shows some significant gaps, particularly along major radial axes, as they were originally served by the national network of buurtspoorwegen vicinal they had trams a feeler a meter, rather than the standard gauge tracks Brussels and therefore can not be easily supported when the lines were progressivel are closed from 1960.
The additional routing Interurban and urban tracks and replacement of key lines in metro led to layouts specific track, for example in Saint-Gilles Barrière de Saint-Gilles Bareel Although the seven routes that circular junction had originally from tramlines, only three of the first seven are 7 to negotiate a tight, old road T18 closed July 1, 2007, her make a 270 degree turn on his journey from the city center, in round buckle and through its own path.
Under the South station, the PREMETRO metro and swap tracks to race on the right to run left where they are parallel to provide cross-platform exchange between the two lines This serves no apparent purpose, but perhaps because the line Belgium main form in run on the trams left right repass under the Place Bara, but the metro is still left to the end of King Baudouin.
No tram priority at traffic lights, but the layout of the track is used to avoid hold-ups on the road at the intersection T92 My Country and Place Janson, which are 300 meters from the other on the Chaussée de Charleroi Charleroi There is a lateral space for only a track in a raised central reservation, and the rails yaw to the left about 100 meters ahead of the junction so that cars can queue waiting in the right lane.
Between 2006 and 2009, a gradual transformation of the network took place in order to improve the regularity and relieve overcrowding The premetro service between North and Albert train station has been restructured with fewer lines through, but at intervals more regular These routes using the new more Bombardier streetcars most of the North-South Axis Lemonnier Rogier is now used by T3 lines and T4 during the day, the brand Chrono Tram line T55 Schaerbeek north of Brussels, which serves to use the north-south route now ends Rogier old line T52 was replaced by the T3 line in the north of Brussels-South Railway station and Thomas Van Praet to the esplanade, T82 Drogenbos to Lemonnier T32 and in the south the old tram line T56 was also eliminated.
Some previously implemented the plan was the creation of the line T25 T25 in April 2007 program will Rogier at Boondael Boondaal station following the route of the former line T90 Rogier Buyl, then leaves to the outer ring the Solbosch campus University of Brussels.
On March 14, 2011, the old T23 lines and T24 were merged to create the new premetro semicircular line is T7 which takes place almost entirely in his own Heysel Heysel right of way in northern Vanderkindere in the south.
Development of the system is pulled in two opposing directions towards low-floor trams street-racing and high underground floor This led to conflicting decisions Standard trams still CCP s 1950 and 60 were followed by the special designed T2000 low-floor model and, at the end of 2005, a variant of the impromptu FLEXITY Outlook Bombardier 3000 series, and at the end of 2006 by an even longer version of the 4000 series family.
On some of the busiest roads, the convenience of low floor is lost because of abnormalities caused by the faltering update underground tram The city has four heavy metro lines and three sections of PREMETRO or underground tram The PREMETRO tunnels built to allow making possible level of heavy underground, so most of the platform is high, and is connected to the street at least in the upward direction by escalator to certain elevators stations have been installed, but there is a level taking cutout section down to a foot above the ground aboard trams three steps involved to make life difficult for passengers with prams or luggage, although new trams low floor are accessible to wheelchair users to bypass this last obstacle to mobility, an experimental ramp was installed in 2009 Parvis de Saint-Gilles Saint-Gilles Voorplein.
A CCP Rogier Rogier leaving for the Midi station, before the opening of the North-South PREMETRO tram stop in the background was also used by the vicinal, which had its terminal loop here.
Trams in Brussels, trams, Brussels, Brussels tram system.