The Rampart, The Traffic Artery, and the Park; Designing for the city regions of Antwerp

Highways and Highways trunk and roads and trunk trunk roads roads
Bicycle Bicycle roads Bicycle - roads highway roads - highway and - highway local
and and local local
the harbour, the anti-tank ditch is only intermittently accessible by bicycle or
Figure 2.5
public transport; the ditch does not function as a concentric (bicycle) connection).
Drawing of the different transport
modes and their infrastructure.
Starting from the railway, we see that the spiral can be picked up via the
Public transport Public Public - transport bus - bus - bus
Public transport Public Public - transport train and - train - ferry train and and ferry rence ferry for these drawings (OpenStreet-
OpenStreetMaps, was used as refebicycle
path along the track of the ditch. After crossing the canal, the spiral
Map, n.d.).
becomes somewhat watered down until the western flank (left of the cycle and
public transport radial on the map); the spiral can be traced in large movements,
but no direct track is available for bicycle or motorised traffic. The western
flank provides good access to the forts on all fronts. At the end of the spiral
– at Sint-Niklaas – we find a possible loop back to Antwerp in the form of the
chaussee to Ghent, and the railway and bicycle highway running parallel to it.
The chaussee ends, as discussed in previous sections, with a visual axis to the
cathedral starting from Zwijndrecht.
This spread shows the different infrastructural networks discussed on the
previous page. These drawings were compiled using a combination of Google
Maps and Open Street Map. The highway and bicycle networks show the
future state of the network after the ring project is completed, for the highway
these sections (the Oosterweel-Link and the A102) are drawn with a dotted
line. The train and ferry map also shows the three variants for the second railway
connection discussed in previous chapters.
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