The mobility strategy for the new stadium strongly prioritizes active modes of transportation (cycling, walking) and public transit.  

This strategy is facilitated by the proportion of Brussels residents among RUSG supporters, approximately two-thirds of season ticket holders. Two-thirds is also the proportion of supporters expected to use active and public transportation modes, according to the mobility study. Conducted by accredited consulting firms between September 2023 and March 2024, its findings were reviewed and validated by a steering committee comprising Bruxelles Mobilité, urban.brussels, Bruxelles Environnement, Bruxelles Propreté, and the Zuid-Midi Police Zone.  

The club is fully aware of the important role it has to play in raising awareness and educating its fans about the available options. This will be all the more important for the first matches, where it will be essential that the right habits are communicated and adopted by Union fans. 

Union will collaborate with public transit agencies (primarily the STIB, but also the SNCB) to further enhance their appeal on match days. A memorandum of understanding has already been signed with the STIB to ensure that relevant lines operate at maximum capacity before and after matches. 

Key tram lines are all located near the new stadium: the 4 (Gare du Nord – Stalle), the 82 (Gare de Berchem – Drogenbos), and the 97 (Louise – Dieweg), as well as the Forest-Midi and Forest-Est stations.  

At the same time, the club will work with the supporters’ clubs to organize shuttle buses for fans living outside Brussels. This will further reduce the number of car trips to the Bempt and Neerstalle neighborhoods. The club is formally committed to this.  

The stadium is easily accessible by bike, particularly via the dedicated bike path on Boulevard de la Deuxième Armée Britannique. 

A permanent bike parking lot with 120 spaces is planned. On match days, this will be supplemented by 2,072 temporary bike and scooter parking spaces. All bike parking spaces will be secure and will also accommodate family bikes. 

A 150-space covered parking garage is planned, primarily for officials and match delegations. This is one of the project’s major environmental strengths: the low number of parking spaces built for a new stadium project. It is significantly lower than in the vast majority of other projects of this type.  

For Union supporters arriving by car, the project relies heavily on the shared use of off-street parking lots in the industrial zone near the Bempt. Their operating hours are indeed aligned with RUSG match schedules (evenings and weekends).  

This approach avoids the need to build large-scale parking lots and helps preserve the quality of the landscape around the stadium. Some parking lots will be served by free shuttle buses before and after the game. 

In addition to on-site parking for officials, team and staff buses, and visiting fans, the industrial nature of the area offers a very large off-street capacity that will be utilized on game days. The identified capacity (2,940 available spaces) far exceeds the demand estimated by the match-day mobility study (2,100 spaces). The identified capacity—based solely on agreements in principle that have already been approved—is consistently greater than the identified needs, regardless of the match scenario.  

Reservations for numerous spaces have already been secured for match days.   

Others are under discussion with parking lot owners in the area. These off-street spaces, validated by agreement, will ensure ample capacity for Union supporters traveling by car.  

The validation of a sufficient number of spaces is also a prerequisite for the issuance of a permit 

The mobility study also highlights that most fans arriving by car will come via the Brussels Ring Road and would be well advised to park in the industrial zone rather than drive into residential neighborhoods.   

Parking management will be monitored through regular meetings on mobility once the stadium is operational. 

Since the 20 to 25 matches per year are held mainly on weekends or, less frequently, in the late evening, they do not coincide with peak traffic hours.  

Furthermore, a large majority of fans—around 70%—will travel to the stadium by means other than car. This proportion is based on simulations conducted in the mobility study carried out by certified experts, the conclusions of which have been validated by regional public institutions.  

This is explained in particular by the high proportion of Brussels-based fans among RUSG season ticket holders, the excellent accessibility of the site via public transit (STIB & SNCB), as well as the fan bus system from the outskirts that the club plans to implement, as recommended in the mobility study.  

The stadium’s accessibility from several ring road exits also helps distribute vehicle traffic, preventing it from being concentrated on the same routes. Finally, a significant portion of fans traveling by car will be VIP spectators. This segment of fans generally arrives well before the match—up to two hours in advance—which helps spread out traffic flows over time.   

Traffic management will be monitored through regular meetings on mobility once the stadium is operational.  

Boulevard de la Deuxième Armée Britannique will remain open to traffic before and during games. Given the large number of fans leaving the stadium after games, the boulevard will be closed to traffic for a short period after the game (30 to 60 minutes) for safety reasons.  

The temporary post-match closure applies to the section between the intersections with Boulevard de l’Humanité and Square des Menhirs. 

On match days, Max Waller Street and Katanga Street will be accessible only to local traffic to ensure safe passage for pedestrians using tram 82 from the Saint-Denis or Max Waller stops. This will also prevent Boulevard de la Deuxième Armée Britannique from being blocked by vehicles turning onto or off Chaussée de Neerstalle. 

All other roads will remain open to traffic.  

Traffic management will be monitored through regular meetings on mobility once the stadium is operational.