Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – This fall, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw will install 110 traffic counting stations. Alderman Bart Keymolen and Mayor Jan Desmeth invite residents to suggest locations to improve road safety and traffic management.
As VRT News reported, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Belgium, is about to conduct an extensive traffic study throughout the municipality this fall with 110 counting stations installed in the most important areas. The counting stations will count vehicles, measure vehicle speed, the type of vehicles and for what times of day are busiest.
How will Sint-Pieters-Leeuw’s 110 traffic counters improve safety?
Alderman Bart Keymolen said residents play an important role in the project.
“It is very important that the counting hoses are placed where speeding is common,”
he said.
“Our residents know the streets best. That is why we invite them to use the Leeuwdenkmee.be platform to show where measurements should take place.”
With 110 measurement points planned, the municipality will collect data from many different streets.
Citizens can suggest locations for the traffic measurements until September 17th, 2025.
“This way, we can connect our residents’ expertise with concrete data,”
the municipality said.
The measurements will take place during October 2025 and November 2025. Mayor Jan Desmeth (N-VA) explained,
“This will not happen during holidays or when there are detours because that could give a distorted picture.”
The data will be analysed in 2026 to decide where safety measures are needed.
Possible actions include average speed checks, lane cushions, axle shifts, and other traffic calming measures. Mayor Jan Desmeth mentioned that the project aims to make the streets of Sint-Pieters-Leeuw safer for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians by combining local knowledge with precise traffic data.
Traffic safety has been a concern in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw for many years. In 2015, the municipality started checking vehicle speeds on main roads after residents reported speeding near schools and busy intersections.
Since then, smaller studies have been done on streets where traffic problems were common. In 2020, temporary counting stations measured traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic to see how patterns changed.
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