Orientation Days Living in Leuven September 2015

Topics Student Services - Housing Service Veggie bag Mobility and Highway Code Garbage disposal Housekeeping

Student Services Van Dalecollege Naamsestraat Leuven

Housing Service … After you’ve found a ‘kot’… Advice about tenancy agreements and rent legislation Mediation

Veggie Bag Every Monday between pm and pm Organic vegetables and/or fruit from 6 up to 12 € a bag Localy produced by a social economy-project 8 pick-up points

Veggie Bag

Mobility in Leuven 800m 2 kilometres Conclusion? Walk Ride a bike

Rent a bike Renting a bike & lock 25 € for 1 year + deposit of 70 € Repairing bikes o Velo-bikes: included in the price! o Own bike: 2 € for using tools + cost of spare parts Hollestraat Heverlee

Save your bike How to park your bike? If available, in a bicycle parking If possible, anchor the frame If not, lock the rear wheel to the frame

Save your bike What to do if your bike got stolen? First look around Often it is only moved a few hundred metres Always report the theft at the police-station! Your bike could have been taken by the police, or retrieved after theft

Cycling School Leuven Cycling lessons for adults

Cycling is the fastest, healthiest and cheapest way to go through Leuven BUT not everybody knows how to ride a bike (safely) Cycling School Leuven

The first module Bike-repair - fixing tires - maintenance - lighting and safety Cycling School Leuven

PRICE: 5 euro per module MAIL: PHONE: 016/ ask for Ine Bosmans Cycling School Leuven

Contact for all your questions about safety and security, traffic problems, if you want to organise a party in Leuven, if you are concerned about burglary or bike theft,… or 016/ Celestijnenlaan 200 P (Campus Arenberg in Heverlee) Monday till Friday (12.00h-14.00h) STUDENT COP

CITY FINES Party with respect!

TRAFFIC FINES SAFETY FIRST Bike lights Cell Phone Red traffic lights 1 m free space on pavement One way streets Pedestrians zones

TRAFFIC FINES SAFETY FIRST Bike lights Cell Phone Red traffic lights 1 m free space on pavement One way streets Pedestrians zones

TRAFFIC FINES SAFETY FIRST Bike lights Cell Phone Red traffic lights 1 m free space on pavement One way streets Pedestrians zones

TRAFFIC FINES SAFETY FIRST Bike lights Cell Phone Red traffic lights 1 m free space on pavement One way streets Pedestrians zones

TRAFFIC FINES SAFETY FIRST Bike lights Cell Phone Red traffic lights 1 m free space on pavement One way streets Pedestrians zones No entrance, not even with a bike One way street, but bikes allowed in both ways

TRAFFIC FINES SAFETY FIRST Bike lights Cell Phone Red traffic lights 1 m free space on pavement One way streets Pedestrian zones

PEDESTRIANS ZONE BIKES NEVER ALLOWED: BIKES ALWAYS ALLOWED: RESTRICTIONS: Allowed between 7PM en 11AM

Leuven: Tiensestraat

LEUVEN: Tiensestraat (Alma 1).

LEUVEN: Muntstraat

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Taking the bus 1.Leuven & suburbs Student buspass (€ 20) -> write your name on it! -> insert the card when you enter the bus First name Last name

The bike- and busmap

The bus to Heverlee Social Work: Bus 315, 316, 318 & 410 Education: Bus 1 & 2 Health & Tech: Bus 3 or ‘Gasthuisberg’ Management: Bus 4, 5 & 6 ‘Ringbus’: Bus 600 and 601

Taking the bus 2. Outside of Leuven (Flanders, not Brussels!) -Cost: Ticket on the bus: € 3 (60 minutes) Travel cheaper: -> Buy tickets in a shop or at the Lijnwinkel -> Buy a ticket for 10 rides -> € 1,40 for 60 minutes -> € 1,80 for 60 minutes on your smartphone 4884 “dl” - Find your way: -> Online: -> Lijnwinkel (in front of the railway station)

Travelling by train Where to buy tickets - In the railway station - Online - On the train: extra fee + risk of getting fined! What does a ticket cost? - Many different formulas! Occasional use: Go pass 10 (-26): 51 € for 10 one-way trips Rail Pass (25+): 76 € for 10 one-way trips Regular use – price depends on distance, travel frequency and age (subscriptions, weekend tickets, group discounts, events and excursions, timetables,…)

Garbage disposal Waste selection system 5 different waste fractions = 5 bags or boxes to be put on the pavement City shop and big supermarkets Different pick-up days between 6 and 7 am search for ‘sorting waste’

ON THE PAVEMENT Paper and cardboard In a cardboard bag or box Organic waste (GFT) Green bag (0.5 or 1 €) or greencontainer Regular garbage Brown bag (1.25 or 2.25 €) Plastic bottles, metal packaging and drink cartons (PMD) Blue bag (0.15 €) Sorting Waste

Glass in glass containers spread over the city Other waste: to the container park 1. Call (7am – 15pm) for a card 2. Fetch the card at Aarschotsesteenweg Go to the container park at Aarschotsesteenweg 212 (Tuesday – Friday pm – pm, Saturday 9 am – 16 pm) COST: € 2,5 entrance (plus € 50 bail for the card) Large domestic waste (sofa, bed…): price per item FREE of CHARGE: Electronics, small dangerous waste, textile… You can also call to pick up large domestic waste at home for € 25 drive cost plus a price per item

Garbage disposal Different pick-up days on the wastecalendar Illegal waste dumping? ! Fines up to 250 euro !

Garbage disposal

Housekeeping

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