The public transport company uses the bus stops adjacent to the station as a terminus and starting point for 30 bus routes that serve towns and villages within a 30 kilometre radius of Brussels. De Lijn currently has 8 stops at the station that serve as terminus stops for 30 bus routes that serve a large area of Flemish Brabant and towns such as Aalst and Dendermonde (East Flanders) and Boom (Antwerp province).

With the onset of winter a growing number of transit migrants have been sleeping rough on the ground floor of Communications Centre North adjacent to the bus stops. This has resulted in issues with rubbish and even excrement on and around the bus stops.

As nothing has changed since De Lijn made its initial threat to no longer serve the bus stops, the Flemish public transport company has announced that from Monday its services will terminate at temporary on the Voortuitgangstraat at the side of the station. Busses will depart from the Rogierplein. The Lijnwinkel shop that sells season tickets and other tickets as well as giving out travel information and timetables will also be closed. Those wishing to visit a Lijnwinkel will have to go to Aalst (East Flanders), Leuven (Flemish Brabant) or the bus stations at Dilbeek or Grimbergen (Flemish Brabant).

Speaking on VRT Radio 1’s morning news and current affairs programme ‘De Ochtend’, the Flemish Transport Minister Ben Weyts told listeners “It is still as dirty as ever there and that is unacceptable. The situation as regards hygiene and security has become simply unbearable”