Pakjesavond: Evening rush hour traffic to pile up earlier than usual
5 years, 3 months ago

Pakjesavond: Evening rush hour traffic to pile up earlier than usual

NL Times  

This evening is Pakjesavond in the Netherlands - the evening on which Sinterklaas delivers his gifts. As a result, evening rush hour is expected to start earlier and be busier than usual, as many people leave work earlier than normal to get home on time, travelers association ANWB and public works department Rijkswaterstaat warn. "The Thursday evening rush hour is always quite busy", Heleen de Geest of the ANWB said to NU.nl. The rush hour peak will be at least an hour earlier, so around 5:00 p.m." Rijkswaterstaat expects rush hour traffic to start piling up at around 3:00 p.m. According to navigation company TomTom, the peak of evening rush hour on December 5th last year was around 4:00 p.m. Then there were over 650 kilometers of traffic jams on Dutch roads.

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Long traffic jams expected this evening due to rain, Sinterklaas celebrations
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Long traffic jams expected this evening due to rain, Sinterklaas celebrations

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Rush hour is going to be intense on Thursday evening due to a combination of rain, Pakjesavond, and commuter traffic, Rijkswaterstaat and the ANWB expect. Pakjesavond, the evening that Sinterklaas brings gifts and treats to children, will mainly result in rush hour starting earlier as commuters rush home for the celebrations. “Probably around 3:00 p.m., while the rush hour normally …

Busy morning rush hour with many accidents; Fatal crash with four vehicles on A16
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Busy morning rush hour with many accidents; Fatal crash with four vehicles on A16

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Traffic piled up on Dutch roads on Tuesday morning due to multiple accidents. On the A16 near the Ridderkerk interchange, an accident involving four vehicles left one person dead and several others injured. There is a lot of traffic around Rotterdam due to an accident involving four vehicles on the A16 near Ridderkerk. While there were no freezing conditions causing …

Bad weather, accidents cause busiest morning rush hour; First snow of the season
4 months, 1 week ago

Bad weather, accidents cause busiest morning rush hour; First snow of the season

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Bad weather and many traffic accidents have resulted in the busiest morning rush hour of the year. De winterse omstandigheden leveren mooie plaatjes op, maar vooralsnog geen lange files rondom Groningen. pic.twitter.com/c7urD9EepZ — Rijkswaterstaat Verkeersinformatie November 19, 2024 ❄️ | Een winters beeld in het noorden van het land. Before today, the busiest morning rush hour of the year was …

Traffic piles up near record levels with more nasty weather on the way
2 years ago

Traffic piles up near record levels with more nasty weather on the way

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Rain and accidents caused almost 1,100 kilometers of traffic jams on Dutch roads on Tuesday morning, with the ANWB calling it the busiest morning rush hour so far this year. “Everywhere the daily traffic jams are longer than usual,” a spokesperson for the travelers’ association ANWB told NU.nl at around 8:00 a.m. “Tuesday is already the busiest morning of the …

Work from home on Thursday: Strong wind and heavy rain expected during rush hours
2 years, 2 months ago

Work from home on Thursday: Strong wind and heavy rain expected during rush hours

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People in the Netherlands were advised to work from home and stay indoors on Thursday, with heavy rain and wind gusts expected to cause a dismal morning and evening rush hour. The Dutch meteorological institute put the entire country on a Code Yellow alert for the possibility of severe thunderstorms, hail, and wind gusts of up to 75 kilometers per …

Busiest morning rush hour of the year with over 900 kilometers of traffic jams
2 years, 4 months ago

Busiest morning rush hour of the year with over 900 kilometers of traffic jams

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Thursday morning saw the busiest morning rush hour so far this year. At 8:00 a.m., the travelers' association ANWB noted 940 kilometers of traffic jams on Dutch roads, a record for the morning rush hour this year. A combination of rain and the expected traffic will make Thursday’s morning and evening rush hours extremely busy, the Rijkswaterstaat warned on Twitter. …

Busiest evening rush hour of the year: More than 1,220 kilometers of traffic jams
2 years, 4 months ago

Busiest evening rush hour of the year: More than 1,220 kilometers of traffic jams

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Thursday was the busiest evening rush hour of the year on the Dutch roadways. At its peak around 5:30 p.m., there were more than 1,220 kilometers of traffic jams. The fact that it was so busy on the road on Thursday was partly due to the end of daylight saving time which concluded early Sunday morning when the clock rolled …

Busy evening rush hour expected as school holidays start; More Texel ferries from today
2 years, 5 months ago

Busy evening rush hour expected as school holidays start; More Texel ferries from today

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Netherlands residents can expect busy roads on Friday afternoon as the autumn holiday starts for schools in the Noord region. Traffic should start piling up around noon when families leave for vacation, travelers organization ANWB warned. At the start of the autumn holidays last year, evening rush hour traffic increased to over 700 kilometers of traffic jams. The ANWB expects …

Busy evening rush hour expected due to Pentecost
2 years, 9 months ago

Busy evening rush hour expected due to Pentecost

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Travelers' association ANWB expects a busy evening rush hour due to the Pentecost weekend. In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, there were about 900 kilometers of traffic jams on Dutch roads on the eve of the Pentecost weekend. For the rest of the weekend, the ANWB expects traffic jams in the direction of events, theme parks, and outlet centers. Last …

Busiest rush hour this year as snow starts to fall
3 years ago

Busiest rush hour this year as snow starts to fall

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Snow has started falling in the center and east of the Netherlands, contributing to the busiest morning rush hour so far this year, public works department Rijkswaterstaat said. At 8:30 a.m., the travelers' association ANWB reported 140 traffic jams covering 800 kilometers of Dutch roads. Meer: https://t.co/rt9iKqCJ0b pic.twitter.com/G15wZlC30x — Rijkswaterstaat Verkeersinformatie March 31, 2022 A spokesperson for the ANWB told …

Dutch railway expects rough morning rush hour after problematic evening
5 years, 9 months ago

Dutch railway expects rough morning rush hour after problematic evening

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Due to multiple problems on the tracks on Monday afternoon and evening, NS expects a difficult morning rush hour on Tuesday. And a points and signal failure stopped train traffic from Amersfoort and Lelystad to Zwolle for a long time, according to RTL Nieuws. Rail manager ProRail reported on Twitter that there were 90 problems on the tracks throughout Monday, …

Rush hour gets tricky early as transit strike nears halfway mark; 450 km of traffic at 4:45pm
5 years, 10 months ago

Rush hour gets tricky early as transit strike nears halfway mark; 450 km of traffic at 4:45pm

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As a national one-day public transit strike was almost halfway finished in the Netherlands, traffic was already beginning to pile up on highways in the Netherlands from 3 p.m. on Tuesday. The public transit strike led to a busier-than-usual morning rush hour, but nothing extreme, according to public works department Rijkswaterstaat. On all Dutch roads there were 696 kilometers of …

Rush hour traffic grows as light snow falls across Netherlands
6 years, 2 months ago

Rush hour traffic grows as light snow falls across Netherlands

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A snow front is slowly moving across the Netherlands, and is expected to hover over much of the southern Netherlands by 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Some traffic problems are expected during evening rush hour, according to the ANWB, with about 175 kilometers of traffic jams reported by 4:30 p.m. Problems could potentially mount up on the roadways as snow could …

Busiest rush hour of the year: over 500 km of traffic jams
6 years, 5 months ago

Busiest rush hour of the year: over 500 km of traffic jams

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Madness reigned on Dutch roads on Tuesday morning. A combination of rainy weather and a large number of accidents caused numerous traffic jams and delays. Rijkswaterstaat's traffic information service measured a total of 514 kilometers of traffic jams on Dutch highways, much higher than the 300 kilometers the public works department expected. The ANWB, which also monitors traffic on provincial …

Autumn weather to cause rush hour traffic problems
6 years, 5 months ago

Autumn weather to cause rush hour traffic problems

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Morning rush hour is expected to be a doozy on Tuesday. The wet autumn weather is expected to cause many traffic jams, according to both Rijkswaterstaat and ANWB, RTL Nieuws reports. By 7:00 a.m. there were already 90 kilometers of traffic jams on the highway, the Public Works department reported. On the A20 from Hoek van Holland towards Gouda there …

Hectic rush hour expected due to canceled trains, bad weather
7 years, 4 months ago

Hectic rush hour expected due to canceled trains, bad weather

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Road users should expect a very busy rush hour on Monday morning. No train traffic is possible on one of the busiest routes in the country, due to maintenance work that is taking longer than expected. Work on the train tracks around Gouda is taking longer than expected, NS said on Monday morning. "The rain area is coming to a …

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