??.10.2022 – 21.10.2022
The Netherlands have a well thought through infrastructure concept, managing every type of traffic so well that using any mode of transportation is pleasant. A small part of this applies for the highway. Depending on demand, the emergency lane can be opened for traffic or digital signs can close lanes. Additionally, the same signs can warn oncoming traffic in case of traffic jam or indicate a recommended speed to prevent a traffic wave.
This works nearly all the time, the only problem is the user. Instead of keeping the safety distance and driving the recommended speed, Dutch drivers try to reach the end of the traffic jam as fast as possible and create multiple traffic waves. This spectacle can be witnessed every week work day morning between the border crossing of Elten and Arnhem.
Many commuters drive from Germany to the Netherlands and a natural traffic jam occurs. Due to the missing safety distance and not adhering to recommended speed limit, every oncoming car has to break harder until traffic comes again to a complete still stand. The most traffic waves I have witness so farther in the this area are four.
If you want to be a model citizen and adhere to the recommended speed as well as keep the safety distance, you are being overtaken on the right line. But how can the problem be effectively addressed?
There is a working solution, nothing new needs to be invented. As everybody is just ignoring the recommendations, they have to be changed to regulations. Instead of a recommended speed, it should be changed to a speed limit and the safety distance stricter enforced. Because of the pricey penalties in the Netherlands, many drives will quickly adhere to the new rules.
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