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The busiest Dutch motorway is the A13 between The Hague and Rotterdam, with a traffic volume of 140,000 motor vehicles per day. [16] The widest Dutch motorway is the A15/A16 just south of Rotterdam with 16 lanes in a 4+4+4+4 setup. Traffic congestion is common in the Netherlands. The high population density generates significant traffic volumes ...
The main public transport in the Netherlands for longer distances is by train. Long-distance buses are limited to a few missing railway connections. Regional and local public transport is by bus and in some cities by metro and tram. There are also ferries.
From year 2000 through 2007 around 16,000 people annually were seriously injured in Dutch road traffic; and numbers rose to more than 20,000 seriously injured in 2011. Half of all seriously injured are cyclists. The Dutch government and societal organisations are aiming to reduce fatalities to 500, and serious injuries to 10,000 by year 2020. [17]
Dutch Tata Steel <TISC.NS> employees held further strike actions on Monday to protest against job cuts planned as part of a broader restructuring, the FNV union said. A strike by workers on the ...
The Dutch Safety Board (DSB; Dutch: Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid, OVV, literally "Investigation Council for Safety") is the official body that investigates a wide variety of safety matters in the Netherlands.
A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered the Netherlands' government to supply more documents in a civil case by more than 20 victims of a Dutch air strike against an alleged Islamic State bomb factory ...
The Dutch National Railway Company (Nederlandse Spoorwegen/NS) was founded in 1837 and tasked with building the Dutch railway network. [9] The first Dutch railway was built and opened in 1839 on a short stretch between Amsterdam and Haarlem , and was expanded between 1840 and 1847 to The Hague and Rotterdam . [ 10 ]
About 800 workers belonging to Teamsters Local 633 in Manchester are threatening to strike after the group voted to authorize a walkout. About 700 are drivers. Despite bargaining sessions set for ...