The blocks and barriers put in place as part of the traffic plan and preventing the circulation of cars in the Cureghem district, in Anderlecht, will be removed very quickly, confirms the office of mayor Fabrice Cumps (PS). This “for the sake of safety on the public highway”. The college will return soon with a series of new proposals. The mayor confirms that the decision to remove the blocks is collegial. “The plan is stopped. My desire now is to start from scratch but on this point there is no official agreement yet”
This decision follows the outbursts, verbal attacks, death threats suffered by the members of the Anderlecht college last week during the municipal council. The layout of this Good Move knit has seen yet another Deputy Groen crashing on a concrete block moved on the roadway by who knows who, while the president of the Foyer Anderlechtois Lofti Mostefa – the one who had broken a glass during the municipal council – encouraged the removal of concrete blocks deemed dangerous for the circulation of cyclists, scooter riders, etc., with some residents . “It is a very good thing.”
“We removed these blocks thanks to the population”he commented in a small video posted on social networks. “In Cureghem, people are not animals, we are not the Gaza Strip here, all that is missing is soldiers…”
As for regional subsidies, the mayor is not 100% sure of being able to keep them since the municipality has decided on the plan. “We will plead our case with the region. I wouldn’t understand why they were taken away from us while we kept the philosophy, we just changed plans. Other municipalities have not yet put anything in place.
On the side of the Greens, the decision would simply be undrinkable. “They don’t want to, and feel more and more lonely. But their blocking capacity is weak. The mayor is in charge, there is support at college and municipal council level… and it has never been question for Ecolo to leave the majority“, confides a source from Anderlecht.