After the city and regional buses were reorganised in June 2015 due to the removal of several bus stops at the Centre Hamilius in Luxembourg City centre, the Ville de Luxembourg have announced more changes to come.
At a press conference held yesterday, Wednesday 2 March, the Ville de Luxembourg revealed that after receiving many suggestions from citizens regarding improvements to be made to the bus lines, they hired an expert in the form of cartographer Jud Cerovic, to help make the city bus network more efficient. All of the changes are to be implemented on Monday 14 March.
Changes include the implementation of a new bus line (#7). The route will be operated at 30 minute intervals from approximately 05:30 to 21:00 Monday to Sunday from Pulvermühl – Verlorenkost – Bonnevoie – Gare Centrale – Hamilius – Kirchberg Nord – Hôpital Kirchberg - Rehazenter. This line was created after various members of the public expressed a need for a better connection to the Pulvermuhl neighbourhood and Verlorenkost. The #7 bus will also create a direct connection between the Bonnevoie district and the Gare Centrale as well as an enhanced service for Kirchberg.
The route of bus #8 in Belair will firstly have a direct connection to Luxembourg-Kirchberg and will also connect with the municipality of Strassen. Thus the bus stops Aubépines, Wandmillen, Stade et Service d’incendie will be replaced by stops including Val Ste Croix, Glaesener-Hartmann (bld Grande-Duchesse Charlotte), Belair-Kierch, Amsterdam, Archiducs and Square New York.
The route of bus #9 will be changed to ensure a better service to the Clausen and Neudorf neighbourhoods. 9/167 and 9/195 will split back to their former individual routes and the districts in question will again be served by a communal line. The #9 bus line will remain unchanged between Gare Centrale and Cents, Waassertuerm.
Other changes to buse lines #21, #24 and #15 will also be made and new bus stops have been added to those routes. For more information on all the changes that will be implemented on Monday 14 March click here.
According to Jug Ceraic's map design, the bus lines are colour-coded and separated into two categories. Looking at the map it will also be possible to determine how frequently the buses will run. The thicker lines will indicate a bus line that runs every five to ten minutes whilst the thinner lines will indicate a less frequent bus service of over ten minutes. The strong colours are given to busses that travel in Luxembourg city centre and the pastel-colours indicate those that go to more outlying regions.
Photo by Emma Terling. (L-R:Paul Hoffmann, Jug Ceraic, Lydie Polfer, Sam Tanson and Lex Bentner)
