Dutch ministry of infrastructure and water management, Government ministry

The Hague, Jan 20 Snowfall, slippery roads and a strike by public transport workers caused massive traffic jams in the Netherlands.Rijkswaterstaat, the department of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management responsible for road and infrastructure maintenance, said that at 7.50 a.m. on Thursday, there was almost a 690-km-long traffic jam in the country, reports Xinhua news agency.During the Covid-19 period, the country's roads were less busy.The previous record of traffic jam stuffed up 572 km of Dutch roadways in the morning of December 13, 2022.The hardest hit on Thursday was the country's south.The provinces of North Brabant and Limburg, and especially the area around the city of Eindhoven, were blanketed by a thin layer of snow, causing a number of truck accidents.Meanwhile, a strike by staff of regional public transport companies seeking pay increases which will also continue on Friday made the morning busier than usual.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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International :Bad weather, strike cause massive traffic jams in Netherlands

The Hague, Jan 20 Snowfall, slippery roads and a strike by public transport workers caused massive traffic jams ... ...