Citizens' Rail

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  • Progress in Parkstad Limburg

    Progress in Parkstad Limburg

    The Citizens’ Rail project will have a lasting legacy at Nuth station, with the completion of a bus-train interchange that will integrate transport in the neighbourhood by bringing more bus routes into the railway station.

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    The new interchange (shown above) will be in use from 2016, and received € 130 000 funding from the Citizens’ Rail project. Further plans for the station include a crossing to connect people to tourism opportunities, leisure activities and neighbouring communities to the east, and measures to enhance the station’s facilities and attractiveness. It will incorporate creative suggestions from international students who came together to discuss the station at a Citizens’ Rail masterclass in 2013.

    In 2014, the plans were discussed with local government for the Nuth area and with the province, which is responsible for regional rail. The province welcomed the initiative and regards the work as a very good example of an interchange in line with their vision on public transport interchanges.

    Meanwhile in news from one of Citizens’ Rail’s other projects in Parkstad Limburg, Kerkrade-Centrum station has received a boost with the opening of the neighbouring Creative City complex and a new Park & Ride at the station – shown below.

  • Dutch development comes to fruition

    Dutch development comes to fruition

    In exciting news from the Netherlands, the development project at one of Citizens’ Rail’s target stations is rapidly becoming a reality.

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    The neighbourhood around Kerkrade Centrum station, located just south of Heerlen, is the focus of a development plan that will see the arrival of Creative City – comprising a technical museum, “earth theatre” and Red Dot Design Laboratory. The attractions are anticipated to attract more than a million visitors per year, and are now scheduled to open in autumn 2015.

    To complement this, as part of Citizens’ Rail local residents and businesses have been working with their regional authority, Parkstad Limburg, to plan improvements to the station. The end of 2015 will see work begin on car parking improvements, a level crossing between the car park and Creative City, and a new design to provide a bus stop, Kiss & Ride and taxi rank in front of the station.