Rush hour gets tricky early as transit strike nears halfway mark; 450 km of traffic at 4:45pm
5 years, 9 months ago

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

NL Times  

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 traffic jams at morning rush hour's peak, according to travelers' association ANWB. #OVstaking #IJtunnel pic.twitter.com/zHCL27z1w9 — Gemeente Amsterdam May 28, 2019 There is a major public transport strike today, which means no train, tram, bus, or ferry service across the Netherlands.

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Unpleasant rush hour as A8 closes near Amsterdam, gradual train restart near Utrecht
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Unpleasant rush hour as A8 closes near Amsterdam, gradual train restart near Utrecht

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The Tuesday evening rush hour kicked off with problems facing both road users and train passengers. There were lengthy traffic jams in and around Amsterdam due to an overturned truck on the A8 near Zaandam, but also problems on the A28, the A4, and A12, among others. Meanwhile, the ongoing issues with overhead lines above the railroad near Utrecht were …

Dutch drivers told to avoid crowded rush hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays
2 months ago

Dutch drivers told to avoid crowded rush hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays

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Minister of Infrastructure Barry Madlener is calling on motorists to avoid peak hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays, aiming to reduce congestion on Dutch roads. Nearly 77 percent of all traffic jams occurred during peak hours, which were between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. in the mornings and 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the evenings. The price of traffic jams …

There was an eight percent increase in traffic jams on Dutch roads in 2024
2 months, 3 weeks ago

There was an eight percent increase in traffic jams on Dutch roads in 2024

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The traffic jam severity on the roads in the Netherlands increased by eight percent in 2024 compared to 2023, ANWB reported based on traffic information from TomTom. Although it was somewhat calmer when it comes to traffic jams for the first six months, the summer and autumn led to a “significant increase in traffic jams,” according to ANWB. There were …

Long traffic jams expected this evening due to rain, Sinterklaas celebrations
3 months, 2 weeks ago

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

NL Times  

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, 3 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 …

Commuters hit by rail strike in Zuid-Holland, Zeeland, Brabant
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4 months, 1 week ago

Commuters hit by rail strike in Zuid-Holland, Zeeland, Brabant

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No trains are running in the provinces of Zuid-Holland, Zeeland and West-Brabant on Monday morning because of a strike by ProRail workers. The strike, from 6 am to 9 am, will cause widespread disruption for several hours after that as services return to normal, ProRail said. Motoring organisation ANWB said it expected heavy rush hour traffic because of the strike. …

ProRail strike: No trains in and around Zuid-Holland during morning rush hour
4 months, 1 week ago

ProRail strike: No trains in and around Zuid-Holland during morning rush hour

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No trains will run in Zuid-Holland, Zeeland, and West-Brabant until 9:00 a.m. on Monday morning due to a strike at rail operator ProRail. The ANWB expects a “very busy Monday morning rush hour” due to the strike and forecast bad weather conditions. The trains will start running again after 9:00 a.m., but NS warned that getting all trains running according …

ProRail strike brings train traffic in central Netherlands to standstill
4 months, 1 week ago

ProRail strike brings train traffic in central Netherlands to standstill

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ProRail traffic controllers are striking between 06:00 and 9:00 a.m. on Friday at the traffic control posts in Amersfoort and Utrecht. NS calls these posts “the heart of the Dutch railways.” The action has brought train traffic in central Netherlands to a standstill. The strike is also noticeable outside the region, for example, for travelers heading to Schiphol and cities …

Rail workers start rush hour strike affecting passenger trains in most Dutch cities
4 months, 1 week ago

Rail workers start rush hour strike affecting passenger trains in most Dutch cities

NL Times  

Many commuters are expected to be inconvenienced by railroad worker strikes in the Netherlands on Wednesday morning. The three-hour strike was scheduled to begin at 6 a.m., and was expected to affect service in all of Noord-Holland, including Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport, and Alkmaar, but also a much wider area due to the importance of the region to the national passenger …

Several rush hour train strikes will hit major Dutch cities, transit hubs this month
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Several rush hour train strikes will hit major Dutch cities, transit hubs this month

NL Times  

Trade union FNV has announced strikes at ProRail that will impact train traffic in large Dutch cities during rush hour on several days this month. FNV wants an average wage increase of 13 percent, ProRail would go no higher than an average increase of 5.2 percent. No one works to become poorer.” The trade union understands that a 13 percent …

Traffic jams on Dutch roads have returned in full force this year
1 year, 11 months ago

Traffic jams on Dutch roads have returned in full force this year

NL Times  

Traffic jams on Dutch roads have returned "in full force" this year. Compared to the first quarter of 2019, traffic jams increased by 10 percent. Furthermore, snow and rain on Tuesday mornings, March 7 and 14, caused rush hours with record lengths of traffic jams of 1093 kilometers and 1102 kilometers. Combined with bad weather, Tuesday morning rush hour traffic …

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

NL Times  

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 …

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

NL Times  

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

NL Times  

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 …

Netherlands heading toward more bumper-to-bumper traffic, travelers' assoc. says
2 years, 8 months ago

Netherlands heading toward more bumper-to-bumper traffic, travelers' assoc. says

NL Times  

The Netherlands' roads are becoming busier and busier, and there is no relief in sight, according to the ANWB. Every year, hundreds of thousands of cars are added to the Dutch fleet, and more people are using the car due to staff shortages in public transport, the association for travelers and traffic information said to De Telegraaf. And people more …

Busiest rush hour this year as snow starts to fall
2 years, 11 months ago

Busiest rush hour this year as snow starts to fall

NL Times  

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 …

1,000 km of traffic jams as Dutch people head to France
3 years, 7 months ago

1,000 km of traffic jams as Dutch people head to France

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Saturday will be the busiest day of the year on European highways, the Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB announced. The ANWB said they expect this year Black Saturday to be busier than ever, given that many people chose to go on vacation by car during the coronavirus crisis. Traffic jams reaching more than 1000 kilometers occurred every Saturday for the …

Frequent drivers now lose 43 minutes weekly to traffic jams
5 years, 2 months ago

Frequent drivers now lose 43 minutes weekly to traffic jams

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Only 15 percent of Netherlands residents are stuck in traffic at least once a week, with most saying that they are much more likely to face difficulties during evening rush hour than in the mornings. People in the Netherlands are also less and less annoyed by being stuck in traffic jams, defined as stop-and-go traffic that barely rises above 25 …

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 …

Road traffic clogged up even before morning rush hour
5 years, 4 months ago

Road traffic clogged up even before morning rush hour

NL Times  

Traffic piled up on Dutch roads even before morning rush hour started on Tuesday morning. By 8:00 a.m. there were 172 traffic jams covering 862 kilometers throughout the Netherlands, according to travelers' association ANWB. The 42 kilometers of traffic jams on the A1 are causing a delay of 127 minutes, particularly between Apeldoorn and Amsterdam, but also in the east …

Fog, slippery roads in difficult morning rush hour
5 years, 4 months ago

Fog, slippery roads in difficult morning rush hour

NL Times  

Fog and slippery roads are causing havoc with traffic in the Netherlands on Tuesday morning. At 8:00 a.m. there were 157 traffic jams on Dutch roads, covering 728 kilometers, according to travelers' association ANWB. An accident on the A2 near the Oudenrijn junction got the morning off to a troublesome start, tying up traffic between Den Bosch and Utrecht, according …

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

NL Times  

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 traffic grows as light snow falls across Netherlands
6 years, 1 month ago

Rush hour traffic grows as light snow falls across Netherlands

NL Times  

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 …

Over 2,000 km of traffic jams as snow moves west across Netherlands
6 years, 2 months ago

Over 2,000 km of traffic jams as snow moves west across Netherlands

NL Times  

There were over 1,635 kilometers of traffic jams across the Netherlands at 5:05 p.m. on Tuesday, just as the evening rush hour got underway, according to travel association ANWB. A snow storm that started on the west coast in the morning was slowly making its way east, and was still expected to hover over the provinces of Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, …

Traffic jams up 20 percent in the Netherlands this year
6 years, 2 months ago

Traffic jams up 20 percent in the Netherlands this year

NL Times  

Drivers in the Netherlands were neither imagining things nor embellishing in 2018 when they complained about travel times. Dutch highways were far more clogged in 2018 than a year earlier, with traffic jams up nearly 20 percent. The heavy traffic had an impact on rush hour, but also outside of the daily busy periods, travellers association ANWB revealed on Thursday. …

Busiest rush hour of the year: over 500 km of traffic jams
6 years, 4 months ago

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

NL Times  

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 …

Sharp increase in traffic jams in Netherlands
6 years, 11 months ago

Sharp increase in traffic jams in Netherlands

NL Times  

Traffic jams in the Netherlands increased sharply in the first three months of 2018, travelers association ANWB announced on Wednesday. Traffic jam severity - the length of the traffic jam multiplied by its duration - increased by over 25 percent, NU.nl reports. Rain and storms caused multiple traffic jams on Dutch roads in January. At its peak, there was a …

Snow causes fewer traffic problems than expected; Public transit crowded
7 years, 3 months ago

Snow causes fewer traffic problems than expected; Public transit crowded

NL Times  

The snowy weather in the Netherlands caused fewer traffic problems on the roads than expected on Monday morning. Morning rush hour traffic reached its peak even before 8:30 a.m., earlier than usual, according to the ANWB. Those two factors, combined with multiple train traffic disruptions, meant that the trains were very crowded during morning rush hour. Heavy snowfall is expected …

12 percent increase in traffic on Dutch roads
8 years, 3 months ago

12 percent increase in traffic on Dutch roads

NL Times  

Dutch motorists spent more time in traffic more frequently in 2016, with a 12 percent increase in traffic severity, NOS reports based on figures from the ANWB. This year Dutch motorists were 6 percent more likely to get stuck in traffic during the morning rush hour, and 14 percent more likely during the evening rush hour. Outside rush hour, traffic …

Rush hour drivers warned of heavy rain, traffic jams
8 years, 10 months ago

Rush hour drivers warned of heavy rain, traffic jams

NL Times  

A very rainy start to the week is leading to a difficult rush hour on Monday morning. By 7:00 a.m. traffic information service VID already reported three long traffic jams on Dutch highways. According to weather service Weeronline, the Netherlands can expect between 20 and 40 mm of rain in the next 36 hours. The weather service warns traffic will …

Dutch city cycle lanes overcrowded at rush hour
9 years, 2 months ago

Dutch city cycle lanes overcrowded at rush hour

Dutch News  

Some cycle lanes in the bigger Dutch cities are dangerous in rush hour because they cannot cope with the volume of cyclists and because cyclists are busy with their smart phones, according to a new report by road safety experts. The traffic safety research foundation SWOV monitored four cycle lanes in Amsterdam and The Hague for several weeks and found …

Dutch city cycle lanes overcrowded at rush hour
9 years, 2 months ago

Dutch city cycle lanes overcrowded at rush hour

Dutch News  

Some cycle lanes in the bigger Dutch cities are dangerous in rush hour because they cannot cope with the volume of cyclists and because cyclists are busy with their smart phones, according to a new report by road safety experts. The traffic safety research foundation SWOV monitored four cycle lanes in Amsterdam and The Hague for several weeks and found …

Public transit strikes in Amsterdam, Utrecht underway
9 years, 5 months ago

Public transit strikes in Amsterdam, Utrecht underway

NL Times  

Travelers in Amsterdam and Utrecht had to struggle through Thursday morning's rush hour without public transport. The employees are protesting against the wage agreement that the Cabinet made with three smaller unions for 600 thousand civil servants and teachers. Transporter GVB expects that all public transport will run according to schedule again around 11:00 a.m. This strike will involve municipal …

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