You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Tramstraat" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 3 minutes away by foot. In fewer than 6 minutes, by car, you can be at "Gent-Sint-Pieters / Gand-Saint-Pierre" train station. The A14 / E17 (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) motorway is accessible in 4 minutes and A10 / E40 (Brussels - Aalst - Gent - Brugge - Oostende) will take 6 minutes. Do you need to charge an electric car? The nearest charging station ("Tramstraat") is just 2 minutes away by car.
For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Carrefour Market Zwijnaarde" (16 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Louis Delhaize Kruibeke Noord-Texaco" (16 minutes by foot or 8 minutes by car), "Ad Delhaize Zwijnaarde" (21 minutes by foot or 3 minutes by car).
The closest nursery is named "De Vlindertjes" and is 2 minutes' away by car. There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Stedelijke Basisschool - Het Prisma", 3 minutes away by bike. The nearest high school is called "Don Boscocollege Eerste Graad" and is 14 minutes' walk away.
You can access these bus lines: De Lijn - 70 - Oostakker - Gent - Zwijnaarde, De Lijn - 72 - Oostakker - Gent - Merelbeke Molenhoek, De Lijn - 71 - Oostakker - Gent - Nazareth with a stop reachable in fewer than 5 minutes as a pedestrian. You can access this tram line: De Lijn - 2 - Melle Leeuw - Zwijnaarde with a stand 8 minutes’ walk away.
Brussels is 36 minutes away by car. It takes about 44 minutes to reach Antwerp with your car. It will take you 21 minutes to get to Ghent by bike. In 34 minutes you can reach Bruges.
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