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The Brussels tramway network is a tram system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It is the 16th largest tram system in the world by route length, in 2017 providing 149.1 million journeys (up 9.5% on 2016) over routes 140.6 km (87.4 mi) in length. [ 1 ]
This is a list of town tramway systems in Belgium by region and province. It tables all tram systems, both past (including vicinal tramways ) and present. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows.
This is a list of Brussels tram routes as of November 2019: [1] tram route 3: from Churchill to Esplanade; tram route 4: from Stalle Parking to Brussels-North; tram route 7: from Vanderkindere to Heysel/Heizel; tram route 8: from Roodebeek to Louise/Louiza; tram route 9: from Arbre Ballon/Dikke Beuk to Simonis and Elisabeth
The Brussels bus network now comprises 360 km (220 mi) of bus line by day and 112 km (70 mi) by night as of 2008, [6] and service the 19 municipalities of Brussels. Buses operated by the Walloon and Flemish public transport companies also run in Brussels in order to allow Walloon and Flemish people to go to the capital city.
The common section offers a high service frequency during daytime hours between Vanderkindere in the municipality of Uccle and the Brussels-North railway station. It shares 4 connections with metro lines and also links two major train stations with access to Thalys and Eurostar trains at Brussels-South railway station .
The Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (French: Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles [a] or STIB; Dutch: Maatschappij voor het Intercommunaal Vervoer te Brussel [b] or MIVB) is the local public transport operator in Brussels, Belgium. It is usually referred to in English by the double acronym STIB/MIVB, or by its French ...
The Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (French: Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles or STIB, Dutch: Maatschappij voor het Intercommunaal Vervoer te Brussel or MIVB) was created in 1954. The first underground tramway (or premetro) line was built between 1965 and 1969, from Schuman to De Brouckère.
The first motor buses were used in Brussels in 1907, with one route connecting the Brussels Stock Exchange to Ixelles' Municipal Hall. It was then stopped in 1913. Other buses were set in service from 1920 on, and in 1926, Les Autobus Bruxellois, a bus company, was founded to operate the bus network. [2]