We've all heard horror stories of really terrible traffic jams, right? I'm not talking about your typical garden variety traffic problem - the ones that you encounter on your daily commute into the city. I'm talking about the really bad ones. The 100 car pile ups. 4+ hour delays. Sleeping overnight in your car. That sort of thing.
Well, this past Tuesday morning, the Netherlands experienced one of those events. And it wasn't just the A2, or the A4, or the N205. Nope. Name a highway in the vicinity of the randstad and I can guarantee that there was a backup on it that morning. It was so bad that highways were stacked up the entire width of the country, leaving some roads backed up for miles simply because they intersected with one that had an accident on it. There was no way around them. All said, it totaled 876 KM. For the metricly challenged, that is more than 540 miles of parking lot.
The Netherlands is only 150 miles long and 100 miles wide. Damn!
Trucks hanging off bridges. Multi-car pile ups. Highways completely shut down. And the trains didn't fair much better. Lots of delays and closed lines there as well. Funny what a little bit of snow and the end of a holiday weekend will bring. DC used to be the same way...but on a much smaller scale.
Thank goodness that I was having a bout of insomnia and was already in the office by 6:15. The roads were no problem, if you are used to driving on a bit of snow and ice.
statcounter
#####################################################
No comments:
Post a Comment