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History teaches us that the first recorded traffic jam in the Netherlands occurred on a beautiful Pentecost day. On Sunday, May 29, 1955, families from the Randstad got into the car for a day in the Veluwe, while a horde of German tourists drove towards the bulb fields. These two traffic flows met at Oudenrijn, which with this first traffic jam also became the first traffic intersection in our country.