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To get some positive but very local news: Antwerp’s chapter of our party had two good victories this week!
We managed, through action, to keep a bus line in the city running.
We also, after two years of action, managed to ban a new, elite Maritime Campus high rise from being build in one of the city’s green areas.
This was all done through campaigning, petitions, visits to people living in the area etc.
Excellent work! Gotta ask about the bus line - were the authorities planning on closing it? Removing the buses?
Yes the government is planning to cancel 5000 stops in the country. This line was part of the plan as well, but through local action the plan for this line got cancelled. So while this one line is saved, many others are still facing problems. The fight continues.
5000 is a pretty dang large number. What are the given reasons for this? The usual “it’s not economically valid” (aka unprofitable in short term)?
The standard neolib idea that public transport has to generate a profit
Not sure why I expected anything else. Are they at least planning to build a highway, as is usually the case?