Launched on 13 April 2026, BELU is intended to link the Belgian and Luxembourgish cycling networks. Overall completion is announced for early 2028, subject to construction delays.
A station, localities and a border
SPW Mobility and Infrastructure is leading the cross-border partnership.
On the Luxembourg side, the Kleinbettingen–Steinfort section of the PC12 is 5 250 metres long. It is intended to serve Kleinbettingen station directly and link Hagen and Steinfort. On the Belgian side, the announced timetable puts the start of work at the end of 2026: around six kilometres alongside the N4 are to be converted into a cycle superhighway, with work on junctions and lighting.
The planned completion in May–June 2027 for the Luxembourg section does not mean that all of BELU will be finished.
The former railway line does not call for a uniform layout
The technical file describes several different situations. In rue du Moulin in Kleinbettingen, the project provides for advisory cycle lanes on both sides of the road. Sections of the former railway platform are to become a three-metre-wide two-way cycle path. In Steinfort’s municipal park, a path is to be shared by pedestrians and cyclists.
Crossings with roads are another part of the works. The file provides for combined crossings and measures intended to slow cyclists as they approach junctions. On the N6, it announces traffic lights with push buttons.
The reuse of the railway land also takes account of the habitats established there. In some places, the route is shifted to preserve ballast favourable to lizards and flora recorded in an ecological assessment in 2017. These are measures included in the design, not an ecological assessment carried out after the works.
A connection within an existing network
The municipality of Steinfort notes that two national routes cross its territory: the PC12, the Attert cycle path, and the PC13, which reaches the centre of the country via Mamer, Bertrange and Strassen, ending at Place de l’Étoile. The Arlon BELAREL route is also accessible via existing cross-border links.
BELU will therefore slot into a network of routes. Access to a station may make it possible to combine several modes of transport; a continuous link may also prevent a useful journey from being interrupted at the border. These are the aims of the project, without presuming how many people will use it.
To plan a journey today, the announced route and an estimated completion date are not enough to establish that a passage is open. Construction information and local signage remain separate from the future plan presented here.
Sources
- Government: BELU launch, 13 April 2026.
- Roads and Bridges Administration: technical file, April 2026.
- Municipality of Steinfort: cycling network and BELU project.
Sources consulted on 21 October 2026.
