For that reason, the children’s farm works this week with adapted opening hours. “It is still possible for staff from Badhoevedorp, but from Hoofddorp and elsewhere you will soon be hopeless in a traffic jam. That is simply no to do.”
‘Now or never’
A beauty salon along the Hoofdvaart, between Hoofddorp and Lijnden, will also have to close the doors for a week. In recent days they have noticed the consequences of this, says co-owner Joan. “Many customers now come for the forced closure, because many of them go on vacation the week after the top. If you want to do something, it is now or never.”
The companies in the closed area can resume their normal work on Thursday or Friday, but until then they are at the mercy of NATO. They can report any (financial) damage to the municipality after the top.