Municipality of Diemen asks Amsterdam to cease ‘site visitors congestion’

The town of Diemen is just not proud of the heavy site visitors within the metropolis as a result of work on the A10 and the Amsterdam IJburglaan. Because of this, there may be “site visitors waste”, says the town of Diemen in a press release on social media. Diemen calls on Amsterdam to take motion.

“There was no coordination or session relating to the mix of actions,” the town writes.

Diemen understands that the highway is being labored on throughout the holidays, however he wish to see adjustments made. “The present state of affairs is resulting in quite a lot of site visitors and delays on virtually each highway in Diemen. This causes nice inconvenience to our residents and may result in unacceptable dangers to the emergency companies, for instance.” Diemen says he can not restrict the quantity of cut-off site visitors himself and has “deal particularly” with the town of Amsterdam in regards to the issues.

A spokeswoman for the Amsterdam site visitors guide Melanie van der Horst informed the ANP that there had been regional consultations in regards to the work. “That doesn’t change the truth that it might probably result in disagreeable conditions throughout implementation,” mentioned the spokesperson.

“We are going to focus on this with the town of Diemen and Rijkswaterstaat to see how we will restrict the disturbance as a lot as doable within the close to future.”

Pictures of the group on IJburglaan have been shared on social media:

The Amsterdam-Amstelland hearth brigade informed AT5 that they have been “totally concerned” within the closure of the A10 and IJburglaan. “We will all the time move there,” the fireplace brigade informed the Amsterdam channel. “Site visitors jams should not a serious concern, however in fact we desire to drive with out site visitors jams” site visitors.”

AT5 additionally reviews that site visitors in the whole part has been blocked for the previous two days. The A10 is to the north till August 14 partially closed. The IJburglaan is closed till August 4.

Rijkswaterstaat already introduced earlier this month that A10 highway customers ought to take into consideration an additional journey time of 1 hour: