The municipality of Maastricht has the ambition to redesign the Stationsplein and part of the Percee or Stationsstraat of Maastricht and to award it more residence quality and appearance as an entrance of the inner city and the rail station. Causes are the introduction of an underground bicycle storage and the possible arrival of the tramline Maastricht / Flanders at the Stationsplein. However, the arrival of the tramline, is last month under discussion and is being reconsidered.
The realization of the underground bicycle storage is foreseen in the course of 2015 / 2017 and will be finished amid 2017 / end 2017.
Besides enhancing the spatial quality and identity of the Stationsplein, a major objective of the redevelopment plan is the optimal integration of the underground bicycle storage and tramline and the situation and design of the entrances and other connections between the bicycle storage and ground level. All this has a close connection with the routing of pedestrians, cyclists, cars, buses and possibly the tramline on the Stationsplein and down the Stationsstraat.
On account of the tender by the municipality of Maastricht for formulating a strategic vision and design for the Stationsplein and part of the Percee or Stationsstraat, at the end of December 2014 MTD urban & landscape architects.
In the agency’s view, the assignment particularly refers to maintaining and strengthening the existing cultural-historical, urban , architectural and green qualities of the Stationsplein and Percee or Stationsstraat, the maximum integration of the bicycle storage, the streamlining of the routing of the various forms of traffic, the designing of the entrances to the bicycle storage and other furnishing elements and the adding of motives for staying and meeting in the public space of the Stationsplein and Percee .
Besides, it is important to ensure the support for the plans and, from the beginning of the planning process, to pull up intensively with the relevant officials of the municipality of Maastricht , the engineering firm that elaborates the bicycle storage and other stake-holders, such as the workgroup Kwaliteitsimpuls (Quality Boost) Wijck, NS and ProRail.
