Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Traffic in Arnhem from Snow
Traffic backed up on the A325 near Arnhem. 22 Jan. 2019 photo: Provincie Gelderland
Nature
traffic
traffic jams
ANWB
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Den Haag
Utrecht
Eindhoven
Groningen
snow
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 18:26
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Worst traffic on record in The Netherlands: Travel assoc.

It was a record-setting day in The Netherlands on Tuesday, but in a particularly good way. Traffic jams stuffed up 2,287 kilometers of Dutch roadways, what traveler's association ANWB called a new record.

The jams were nearly double that which was recorded on November 1, the worst date of 2018.

The record did not necessarily translate into an increase in crashes. "The average speed was well below 30 kilometers per hour. Many people adjusted their driving behavior, so relatively few major accidents occurred," the ANWB noted.

"However, motorists had to take into account significantly higher travel times."

Snowfall first hit Tuesday morning along the country's North Sea coast, continuing north and east past rush hour and into the evening. There was no new snow in the Randstad by the end of the evening rush, but it was still landing between Eindhoven, Groningen, and Utrecht.

Sub-zero temperatures also prompted a code yellow weather warning for slick roads, expected to last into Wednesday afternoon.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Tickets for festival experiments sell out within an hour
  • Hackers possibly had access to Amsterdam universities' student passwords
  • Women waiting longer to have kids
  • Gov't services lose sight of humanity when implementing policy: Committee
  • Tickets for festival experiments on sale from noon
  • Restaurants called on to open Tuesday, despite lockdown

Top Stories

  • Dutch less satisfied with life in Covid pandemic
  • Pandemic hit NS harder than expected
  • Amsterdam limits access to Vondelpark after massive party
  • Nearly 50K more Covid vaccines administered; Infection average rises again
  • €600 million in cocaine headed to one Dutch address caught in busts
  • All primary school teachers to be tested for Covid: report

© 2012-2021 NLTimes.nl, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact