• Truckers are ignoring the legal 50 metre minimum distance between vehicles while using the Kennedy Tunnel in Antwerp, the motoring organisation VAB said, resulting in a growing number of accidents. VAB called for freight vehicles to be diverted through the Liefkenshoek tunnel instead.

• The Flemish agency for roads and traffic plans to install 17 new dynamic information signs on the Brussels Ring starting this week, Flemish mobility minister Hilde Crevits announced. The signs are designed to warn drivers of incidents or hazards ahead.

• Automatic sliding doors giving access to Brussels metro stations have been successful in cutting vandalism by 21% in the 18 stations so far fitted, Brussels region’s mobility minister Brigitte Grouwels said. The doors have also had an effect on acts of aggression, which rose by 18% in those stations, compared to an increase of 100% in stations not yet fitted with doors.

• The world “Slow” displayed on warning dummies installed near school premises in Flanders is in breach of the language law, the standing committee on language has said. By law, the language of all warning signs must be Dutch.

• Only eight railway stations in Flanders, including Sint-Niklaas, Antwerp Central and Gent-Dampoort, fully comply with the requirement to provide full access to the disabled, announced federal government enterprise minister Inge Vervotte.