A majority of the Den Bosch city council wants buses to disappear from the city center. The immediate reason for the discussion in the council is a number of accidents in which a bus shelter was torn apart and a shop front was rammed.
Last August it went wrong twice in a few days. A few hundred meters apart, a bus crashed into the facade of a chocolate shop. Earlier, a bus hit a bus shelter. Things went wrong there a year earlier: six people were injured by flying glass. Reason for several parties in the city council to raise the alarm with the city council.
The culprits are the city buses and the transferium buses, which have to maneuver through the narrow streets of the city center. With these transferium buses, visitors to the center can park on the edge of the city and then be taken to the center by bus.
Switch to smaller vans
If it were up to the city council, new bus stops would be built on the edge of the center, so that buses no longer have to go through the narrow streets. Councilor Roy Geers makes a comment: “The success of the transferium is because the bus travels so far into the city and people are dropped off in front of the shops.” Switching to smaller vans is one of the options mentioned in the municipal council.
2026
The intention is that by 2026 no more large buses will be driving through the city center. “We should not rush,” the councilor said during the discussion with the council. For example, new bus stops will have to be built before then.
This bus shelter was torn apart twice in one year.