Bondgenotenlaan is traffic-free on Saturdays

Every Saturday in May, June and July 2024, Bondgenotenlaan is partly traffic-free. This way you can shop to your heart's content. This means that the buses will follow a diversion.

Translated from City of Leuven

28 May 2024

When : Every Saturday in May, June and July 2024, from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Where : Bondgenotenlaan, between Justus Lipsiusplein and Rector De Somerplein

With the bus

Buses follow a diversion.

Direction to station: Via Ferdinand Smoldersplein, Rijschoolstraat, Matthias van Den Gheynlaan, Jean-Baptiste Van Monsstraat and Diestsevest
Towards the center (Dirk Boutslaan): Via Louis Melsensstraat, Jan-Pieter Minckelersstraat, Matthias van Den Gheynlaan, Rijschoolstraat and Ferdinand Smoldersplein

The shuttle bus to and from the Vaartkom car park also follows a diversion:

Departure from Vaartkom car park, Engels Plein (at Dreamland)
The bus runs via Minckelersstraat and Rijschoolstraat
Stopping point at Ferdinand Smoldersplein (at Kruidvat)
The bus runs via Dirk Boutslaan and Vismarkt (instead of along Bondgenootlaan)

By car

You can only use Bondgenotenlaan as far as Louis Melsensstraat.

There is two-way traffic:

In the Vital Decosterstraat (between Rijschoolstraat and Bondgenotenlaan, and between Ladeuzeplein and Bondgenotenlaan)
In the Leopold Vanderkelenstraat (between Monseigneur Ladeuzeplein and Bondgenotenlaan)
In the Lepelstraat (between Louis Melsensstraat and Pierre Joseph Van Benedenstraat)
On Margarethaplein
On the Rector De Somerplein

You are not allowed to park:

In the Louis Melsensstraat
In the Lepelstraat (between Louis Melsensstraat and Pierre Joseph Van Benedenstraat)

View all traffic measures on the Leuven Police website

By bike

Cyclists are allowed to go everywhere.