Belgium has never been so bottled: the first 6 months of 2018 are CATASTROPHIC

The Belgian has never spent so much time in traffic jams, according to the barometer of the Touring Mobilis files for the first six months of 2018.

The number of hours in which the total length of traffic jams is greater than 300 kilometers almost doubled between 2017 and 2018 in Belgium. It went from 24.2 hours to 46.6 hours.

"Structural" increase

Above 350 and 400 kilometers of lines, the difference is even greater. "The moments when the traffic knows more than 100 kilometers of traffic jams on the Belgian network became more frequent", increasing of 24,7% compared to 2017 " badysis Lorenzo Stefani, spokesman of Touring. "So we can talk about an increase in structural congestion."

He adds that "unlike 2017, the increase is striking in 2018, especially during the daytime during off-peak hours " as commuters seek to get to work outside rush hours when the grid is saturated.

Why Such an Increase?

" There are three basic elements: the first is in the event of heavy rain, snow or ice, there is also work that has increased since last year and will increase next year. intermodal platforms and alternatives that are missing and that people have no other choice today than to take their car to arrive at a specific time in a specific place " explained Stefani to RTL info