Here it is: the first trambus. Hybrid vehicle runs from september to the fifteen minutes between UZ Jette and Brussels Airport

Zaventem airport, Zaventem is Tuesday, the first trambus proposed. The vehicle is 24 feet long, has the comfort of a tram and the manoeuvrability of a bus. The trambus will be from september to the quarter between the university hospital in Jette and Brussels Airport drive. On board 51 and 86 pitches.

the first trambus Tuesday at the airport of Zaventem, it was proposed, is no coincidence. Brussels Airport will be the vehicle – a combination between a bus and a tram from september 1, daily about the floor. The trambus, that by busbouwer Van Hool developed, it should be an alternative to the many traffic jams in the north, around Brussels. “The vehicle smoothly between the UZ Jette and Brussels Airport drive, over the coming years the longest bus lane of our country is created”, says director-general Roger Kesteloot of The Line. “The trambus will, however, not from day 1 on that full bus lane can drive, but we expect that they will at 2023 all laid out. At the moment all different parts of the bus lane has been constructed, the rest will follow later. Until then, follow the trambus the trajectory of line 820. Along that route are very important locations of the area of Brussels north. I think, among other things, the Heizelvlakte, UZ Jette, brussels airport and the centre of Vilvoorde.”

10.000 cars

In the long term should the fourteen trambussen, that every quarter of an hour will drive, every day ten thousand cars off the road. “With 137 seats, a length of 24 meters, four wide doors, a low floor, comfort and environmental friendliness has the trambus about the main advantages of the tram,” says Flemish mobiliteitsminister Ben Weyts (N-VA). “But the vehicle will be more flexible than a tram, and has thus the great advantage of the bus. Moreover, it saves The Line thanks to the hybrid trambussen annually about two hundred thousand litres of fuel.”