Biggest summit of the year: 1100 km of traffic jams

Ai: It's still this time. Or in fact, it's worse. The peak hours of Thursday night are the busiest of the year, according to the traffic services. "And it's not until November 1st."

At 1800 hours, 1100 kilometers of clean land on highways and northwesterly roads were motionless, especially around Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, he was painfully busy.

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In Rotterdam, the light was extinguished in one of the tubes of the Benelux tunnel and caused some problems. A mechanic from Rijkswaterstaat repaired the lights. A4 traffic was already stuck in the afternoon. On the A16, A13, A20 and A16 motorways as well as on various feeder roads, traffic was stagnant. The A16 motorway resulted in a traffic jam on the Van Brienenoord bridge due to a motorcycle accident.

Most traffic jams are simply from the crowd. "Said ANWB spokesperson

What to do?

We wrote about it on Tuesday: the crowd on the roads the fast lanes, the carpool, the work at home, nothing seems to be able to help all the fileleed by the economic growth that will only become more congested in the coming years: the loss of travel time can increase by more than a third until 2023.

There is something to be done about this, according to the l & # 3939; Ben Immers road traffic expert. Taking a turn for example. "But, politicians do not want to start," he sighs. "They do not want to introduce road pricing at the regional level – a shame because it works very well abroad – in Stockholm traffic is halved thanks to road pricing." More about it , read the article.