At around 8.15 a.m. on Monday morning, some 450 kilometres of traffic jams had materialised on Belgian roads. This is significantly more than usual and only happens a few times a year.
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Strikes and poor weather: Rush hour with more than 450 kilometres of jams
Colin Clapson
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‘The longer traffic jams are due to a combination of rainy weather and the strike,’ says VRT traffic expert Hajo Beeckman. Because there are hardly any trains or buses running, people are trying to get to work by car.
Extra busy morning rush hour on Flemish motorways and roads
The roads are busier than usual this morning, again due to the public transport strike combined with the bad weather.
At around 7.30 a.m., already more than 300 kilometres of traffic jams had appeared. In some places, the jams are particularly long, on the motorways and the dual carriageways around the northern port city of Antwerp and around our beautiful capital Brussels.