Future
The STIB/MIVB has plans to make lines 1 and 5 fully automatic by 2016. A new metro line should be created by 2020 from the Brussels-North railway station through Schaerbeek, toward Bordet railway station. Initial studies should be completed by end 2012. Later, this would be linked up with a new southbound line to Uccle (Héros), which will not be finished before 2025.
In 2004, STIB/MIVB commissioned a planning document called STIB/MIVB 2020. Here, some more suggestions were made as to future plans, but these will not be enacted upon before completion of the north- and southbound lines. One suggestion included the construction of a new branch from Merode to Troon via Brussels-Luxembourg Station. This would help to relieve congestion on the central parts of Line 1/5. There may be a further metro line running south-west from Brussels-Luxembourg Station to serve Ixelles, the Chaussée de Waterloo, and the Place Vanderkindere. In this case, the Brussels-Luxembourg Station would become one of the major transfer points of the Brussels metro system.The plan also hopes to make the railway stations of the city more inter-connected, allowing for easier transfers from Brussels-South railway station, Schuman station, and Luxembourg.
The Brussels Metro will be complemented by an RER network serving the broader metropolitan region. This is scheduled to begin operations in 2025 (from 2012 in the conception phase), and should help make the railway stations of the city more inter-connected, allowing for easier transfers between them.
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