The umpteenth accident happened around 7 p.m. on the infamous Aalsmeer roundabout of the Burgemeester Kasteleinweg and the Dorpsstraat. This time a meal delivery driver riding a bicycle collided with a Connexxion bus.
This happened as the bus exited the roundabout. Buses go straight through the middle of this roundabout. Traffic lights warn other traffic when a bus is approaching. The front windshield of the bus suffered a significant dent from the collision, but the meal delivery driver was not injured. A spokesman for the police informs NH.
A reporter at the scene saw about twenty shocked passengers get off the bus after the accident. The bus can no longer continue and the police have briefly closed off the road, “but we were mainly present for mediation,” said the spokesperson.
Hit every week
Exactly a week ago, an accident involving a scheduled bus also happened on the roundabout. When the bus scooped a car from the away. A week before that, a cyclist was injured after a collision with a bus. NH listed the accidents of the past few months in the timeline below.
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Monique de Haas, who lives next to the roundabout, is ‘very shocked again’, she tells NH. She has become so used to the accidents that she immediately recognizes the sounds and jumps up. Today she was again at the roundabout. “I’m glad that boy is not injured, but he was very upset.” Monique is building a file of all accidents that happen in the hope that the municipality will take measures.
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Monique sees accidents happen every week on the roundabout next to her house – NH News
In addition to local residents, the Connexxion bus company also raised the alarm with the municipality of Aalsmeer about the safety of the roundabouts. “The reason was that drivers have reported to us that dangerous situations regularly occur,” a spokesperson said at the time. The drivers have since been instructed to drive extra carefully, but things keep going wrong.
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There has been a discussion between the Amsterdam Transport Region, the municipality, the province and the police. The municipality informs NH that a proposal for improvements will be submitted to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen this week.
The municipality told earlier think of solutions such as thresholds and traffic lights that only turn green when the bus has slowed down sufficiently. A third option is to remove the bus lane on the roundabouts and allow the bus to follow the traffic on the roundabouts.