The City of Brussels will create an additional lane giving easier access to the Tour & Taxis Pak for pedestrians and cyclists – who now have to go all the way around – by opening up their sites to open the park from the Rue Dieudonné Lefèvre in the north.
The gate between the BE-HERE business centre and the postal sorting centre will be opened by the Port daily between 06:00 to 19:00, giving walkers and cyclists going to and coming from the Tivoli neighbourhood easier access to the park and the Avenue Anna Boch.
"This agreement was much needed. Tour & Taxis Park has many access roads but the connection to the Tivoli neighbourhood was still non-existent," said Brussels City Councillor for Urban Planning and Public Spaces Anaïs Maes (Vooruit.brussels).
This way, soft mobility between Laeken and the city centre will get an upgrade. In the future, the temporary cycle path will be replaced by the construction of the Drève Maritime – which will be the third public road through this emerging urban neighbourhood alongside Drève du Parc and Avenue Anna Boch.
"Today, people still have to make a long diversion to enter the park even though they actually live right next to it," Maes stressed. "It took some effort and time but I am delighted to have a deal in hand today that all parties can agree on."
Now that the agreement has been validated by both the Port and the City Council of the City of Brussels, the Public Works departments can get to work on the implementation of the cycle path. The works are scheduled for the end of this summer.
"The parents in the neighbourhood have long been looking forward to a safe bicycle connection that will bring them and their children to the school gate via T&T park," said Brussels City Councillor for Mobility and Public Works Bart Dhondt.
"In anticipation of a final reconstruction, we will now realise this safe connection in the short term," he added.
