This will change on 1 February: new rates for NMBS and De Lijn, and stop smoking is cheaper

February is just around the corner, and that brings changes with it. So tinker with The Line and the nmbs / SNCB on their rates and a new scheme for the provisional licence in force. In addition, should the federal government from the 1st of February for the first time, recourse to temporary agency workers and is rookstopmedicatie now better reimbursed. Train tickets cheap, subscriptions are more expensive

Railway company nmbs / SNCB fits on 1 February her rates. The subscriptions will rise slightly higher in price, while some tickets for a bit cheaper. the

First the good news. The NMBS wants to new travelers, attracting, and therefore lowering the rates of default and weekendbiljetten for rides of at least 35 km in second class. Tickets in first class to be cheaper on shorter routes. the

Also youth groups will be cheaper. Children under 12 years of age in group travel, travel from February for a “symbolic amount“ of 1 euro per journey . Group tickets (15 people or more) for travellers from the age of 12 are more expensive. There is a discount 60% , instead of 70 percent applied. the

Who also more will need to pay, is the frequent traveler. The price of living werkabonnementen and school subscriptions with 1,18 percent. Also the tienrittenkaarten be more expensive. The Go Pass 10 for young people under 26 years of age will be 53 instead of 52 euro for ten journeys (+1.9 percent). Adults should have a hefty price to swallow: the Rail Pass is 7,8% more expensive, and will from February 83 euro for ten rides costs instead of 77 euros.

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finally, the NMBS also the rates simplified for travelers who can make their bike want to bring on the train. Now there was a choice of a single ticket of 5 euro for the bike or a day ticket of 8 euros. In February is that a fixed rate of 4 euro per route . Folding bikes continue to be free. It is also not yet decided whether there is a ban coming on trips with the bike on spitstreinen. “The consultations about that walk,” says NMBS spokesman Bart Crols.