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Owners of old polluting diesel vehicles will start being fined €350 if they drive anywhere within the Brussels region from today (1 October).
The mayors of Brussels and Paris have called on other cities to follow their lead and implement a Europe-wide Car-Free Day.
More must be done to get people out of their cars and on to other forms of transport, according to Flemish chamber of commerce Voka.
A brunch table 90 metres long will appear on Boulevard de Waterloo for Car-Free Sunday on 16 September. Anyone can sit down at the table and order up brunch.
A new network of traffic cameras aimed at combating organised crime and terrorism will be far more extensive than originally planned.
According to Sport Vlaanderen, which carried out an online survey, half of all commuters live less than 10 kilometres from their jobs.
A 10% drop in the number of cars on Brussels' roads this week has caused the size of traffic jams to fall by almost half, according to the latest figures from Brussels Mobility.
BMW's "free-floating" car-hire scheme, DriveNow, has revised its growth objectives downwards after posting a €3.25 million loss last year.
A hundred new electric car charging stations will be set up around the Brussels region by 2020, the region's mobility minister Pascal Smet has announced.
