The CFL had announced earlier this year that the railway station in Bettembourg will be closed to train traffic from 13 July to 11 August, as the Hammerel bridge, which crosses the tracks, is being demolished and replaced by a new bridge. The disruption will mean no trains will run between Luxembourg and Esch-sur-Alzette, between Luxembourg/Bettembourg and Volmerange-les-Mines, between Noertzange and Rumelange, as well as between Luxembourg and Thionville. Unveiling details of replacement buses along the affected routes, the CFL said on Monday that passengers should allow “between 30 and 45 minutes of additional travel”. The direct L91 bus service between Luxembourg’s Gare Rocade and Thionville will depart every five minutes, the CFL said. A longer route, the L90, will serve all of the stops between Luxembourg and Thionville usually operated by the train, namely Howald, Bettembourg and Hettange-Grande. The service will run every half an hour at peak times, while a departure every hour is planned outside rush hour. Additional bus departures are planned from Hettange-Grande to Luxembourg in the morning, according to CFL. Buses will take passengers directly from Luxembourg to Metz in order to board the TGV train to Paris - which will host the Olympic Games from 28 July to 11 August - although fans will also be able to travel to the French capital from the border town of Rodange. Passengers coming from and going to Esch-sur-Alzette will be able to take buses every 15 minutes at peak times both a direct connection and another route which will serve all stops between the capital and will serve all of the stops served by the train between Luxembourg and Volmerange-les-Mines Rail travellers also have to be prepared for problems in the second half of the summer holidays with no trains running from 12 August to 15 September between Bettembourg and Luxembourg City due to engineering works The maintenance work will see a new platform and two additional tracks built in Howald bus and tram networks will be carried out in the area over the coming months Replacement buses between Bettembourg and Luxembourg City from 12 August to 15 September are scheduled every five minutes during rush hour Trains will operate as normal from Bettembourg to the south of the country during this period (This article was originally published by Virgule. 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to propose multimodal alternatives; to identify solutions for serving peri-urban areas that do not benefit from rail infrastructure.” At the same time two other studies are being carried out in the area: the strategic cross-border mobility plan (SMOT)--currently under way--and a study of mobility around Thionville-Bouzonville-Creutzwald-Forbach which will be launched at the end of the year But no precise timetable or funding plan has been detailed Some users said on the sidelines of the meeting: “Nothing but hot air!” according to the AVTERML-FNAUT users’ association “the Thionville-Esch line will not be reused (during the works) And the new Luxembourg Coradia trains are not scheduled to run in France.” On the other hand the Apach-Thionville link could be brought back into service according to the 2028 cross-border call for tenders The SNCF and CFL also gave an update on the year’s construction works and those to come work to extend the Centralised Network Control (CCR) is continuing until early December Maintenance work at Metz/Woippy will be completed in mid-November the connection to the future Montigny-lès-Metz workshop should be completed the CFL has announced that traffic between Bettembourg and the capital will be interrupted for at least 13 weekends in April and between July and September to continue preparing the connection to the future Bettembourg-Luxembourg line This work will involve building a new platform at Howald and adapting the railroad switches in Luxembourg City two more summers of construction work are planned with--as last summer--a complete interruption of traffic between Thionville and Luxembourg which should be brought into service at the end of 2027 or the beginning of 2028 The region has provided an update on capacity and in particular on the 16 new trains purchased from the Normandy region which are still not running on the network They are not due to be put into service until the end of 2025 They must first be equipped and approved for use in Luxembourg they will provide 4,000 additional seats per direction of travel during rush hour The route, starting in September, will ferry travellers during peak morning and evening periods from stops in six French municipalities to the town of Mondorff. Commuters will then be able to walk a few meters across the Luxembourg border to Mondorf-les-Bains, from where they can take the Grand Duchy’s free public transport network to their destination. The six-month pilot scheme has been launched by a group made up of councils covering Cattenom and surrounding areas the Communauté de Communes de Cattenom et Environs “We want to see if the service proposal is successful because any test has a cost and we must not spend extravagantly,” said Roland Balcerzak the group’s vice-president and mayor of Hettange-Grande “Road traffic has increased tenfold while the road network has not been modernised,” he added Last year, governments in the two countries said they would work to increase train services to run every 10 minutes between Metz and Luxembourg City by 2030. The capital city’s tram service is set to be expanded to the French border for €3 billion and passengers should be able to make the trip in 30 minutes within a decade Meanwhile, the cost of expanding the motorway between Metz and the Luxembourg border will be financed by drivers paying some of the highest toll charges in France, a change introduced on a road link that has been free-of-charge for decades (This article first appeared in Virgule. Translation and editing by Emery P. 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One of the new routes will be number 302 starting in Gasperich with the Hettange Grande in France via Cloche d’Or, Howald and Frisange. The other route will be the323 from Esch-sur-Alzette to Hayange via Ottange, Bure, Boulange, Fontoy et Knutange. Both services are due to start in September. nine-seat minibuses have been lining up to cart the workers from communities around Cattenom to the French town of Mondorff at the international border the commuters can walk about 200 metres to board buses in Mondorf-les-Bains that are part of Luxembourg’s free public transport network The service is the latest in a range of efforts to improve transportation links between Luxembourg and France and make it more feasible for more than 120,000 French workers to travel to jobs in the Grand Duchy Six years ago, Luxembourg promised to spend up to €120 million on infrastructure projects in an attempt to improve travel. Last year, governments in the two countries said they would work to increase train services to run every 10 minutes between Metz and Luxembourg City by 2030. The six-month shuttle bus pilot by a group of local French councils, the Communauté de Communes de Cattenom et Environs (CCCE), is expected to cost €730,000 and is designed to ease traffic congestion and improve commuting for workers. The six municipalities have 3,000 to 3,500 inhabitants, and up to 80% of their workers commute into Luxembourg for jobs. “They were not served until now,” said Roland Balcerzak, who is in charge of mobility for CCCE. Two lines will operate: from Contz-les-Bains to Mondorff via Haute-Kontz and Beyren-les-Sierck; from Berg-sur-Moselle to Mondorff via Gavisse, Fixem and Beyren-les-Sierck. Each route will feature several stops between 5:30 and 9:00 from the villages to Luxembourg, then between 16.00 and 19:30 in the opposite direction. The French commune authority this summer began offering buses between the Hettange-Grande station and Luxembourg’s Frisange park-and-ride lot during work on the Bettembourg railway station when direct train connections were blocked. “Overall, we are satisfied with the solution we provided,” Balcerzak said. About 150 to 200 cross-border workers rode the route on an average morning discussions to spend about €20 million to build a dedicated bus lane between Hettange-Grande and Frisange are “in a negotiation phase,” Balcerzak said The costs involve acquiring the land needed on both sides of the road to accommodate buses in both directions (This article first appeared in Virgule. Translation and editing by Emery P. Dalesio.) 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