Just another metroline?! Brussels: 19 Ambitions for a layered city

THE RELAYERED CITY
Dimitri Voordeckers
METRO LINE 3
Growing urban areas are confronted
with the vital aspect of transportation
for the functioning of the city.
Nowadays, Brussels has a strongly
developed transportation system
with a wide range of transportation
possibilities. The overall policy in
Brussels intends to focus on a high
quantity of transport methods, in order
to arm itself for future developments.
The ambition of this project is not to
focus on the quantity, but on the quality
of the system. By shifting transport
methods, research towards a new
efficient and coherent transportation
system is conducted. A distinction
is made between private and public
transport, where the private transport is
shifted to the underground layer and the
public transport to the surface layer. The
preliminary reasoning is tested as a pilot
project within the area of the planned
metro line 3. The potential added value
on urban experience and on efficiency
is represented by different developed
cases. The main aim of this ambition
is to illustrate the potentials of leaving
the contemporary crusted policy, and to
investigated new layering possibilities of
transport systems.
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