In Menen, the N8 goes over the Kortrijkstraat, the Grote Markt, the Ieperstraat and the Yvonne Serruysstraat. Now that the city can manage that road, it can roll out its heating network, and the reconstruction of the Grote Markt will also be easier to realize.
“That transfer is a logical step,” says Flemish MP Griet Vanryckegem of N-VA. She is now an opposition councilor, but until recently was an alderman in Menen.