Kortrijk suing The Line for discrimination: large, distance between bus terminals bothersome for those who are less mobile is

Kortrijk The city of Kortrijk complains The Line at gelijkekansencentrum Unia. The city council finds that The Line is less cellular discriminates by a smooth connection between the bus terminals at the train station to make it impossible. The Flemish transport Company bounces the ball back and sets the city responsible: “The city approved everything well.”

There were in the autumn of 2017 new bus terminals at the front and back of the train station. That were needed in the framework of the work for the renewal of the station area, where The Line of the former bus station in the Exhibition had to be exiting. It runs well a year and a half later, not lubricated. The accessibility of the bus terminals and the connection between the bus terminals are a disaster for wheelchair users, the disabled and less mobiles. Travelers are often on foot from one side to the other side of the train station to move to their journey on another bus to continue. Can be a chore. So are the stairs at the station Square to the passage under the platforms of the train station an obstacle for less mobiles.

No lift

council Member Matti van de maele appeared (Green) raised the issue Monday night, the city council and immediately received the support of ships of Mobility Axel Weydts (sp.a). A first slope was towards the beginning of 2018, with a lift to be installed to the steps at the tunnel under the treinperrons. That failed. “There was indeed a specification written out, but no contractor was interested,” says Axel Weydts.