{"id":10332,"date":"2026-01-25T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/near-total-public-transport-shutdown-in-belgium-for-five-days\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:46:50","slug":"near-total-public-transport-shutdown-in-belgium-for-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/near-total-public-transport-shutdown-in-belgium-for-five-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Near-Total Public Transport Shutdown in Belgium for Five Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Starting this Sunday evening, Belgium will experience widespread disruptions in its public transport network due to a nationwide strike lasting five consecutive days, threatening to halt train and bus services for hundreds of thousands of passengers.  <\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.belgiantrain.be\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Belgian Railways NMBS\/SNCB<\/a> stated that the strike will begin at 10:00 PM on Sunday and continue until 10:00 PM on Friday, January 30, while the transport network in Wallonia (TEC) will join the strike starting Monday for an indefinite period.  <\/p>\n\n<p>These union actions come in protest against the railway reform bill proposed by Transport Minister Jean-Luc Crucke, which includes: <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Abolishing permanent employment contracts and replacing them with temporary contracts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reducing budgets allocated for public services by approximately \u20ac675 million.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Demanding improved working conditions and adjustments to the retirement age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/widespread-strikes-in-belgium-threaten-train-and-public-transport-services-at-the-end-of-january\/\">The strike<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/%d8%ae%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%8a%d9%83%d8%a7\/\">Belgium<\/a> is expected to cancel most local and suburban trips, while <a href=\"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/full-closure-of-the-e313-highway-in-belgium-for-bridge-replacement-works\/\">high-speed lines<\/a> will operate at a very limited pace. <\/p>\n\n<p>Passengers are advised to check the NMBS\/SNCB app or website 24 hours before heading to stations to stay updated on the latest schedules.<\/p>\n\n<p>Some international services, such as Eurostar and Thalys, may also be affected due to disruptions in the local network, despite efforts to maintain a minimum level of international service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this Sunday evening, Belgium will experience widespread disruptions in its public transport network due to a nationwide strike lasting five consecutive days, threatening to halt train and bus services for hundreds of thousands of passengers. Belgian Railways NMBS\/SNCB stated that the strike will begin at 10:00 PM on Sunday and continue until 10:00 PM &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[413],"class_list":["post-10332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-belgium-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10333,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10332\/revisions\/10333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}