Residents of the center of Den Bosch are happy that the municipality will tackle traffic homes even harder. 35 nuisance people with more than four fines in one year have received a warning letter on the mat. That is what local residents who are nuisance think a good idea, although they also wonder if that letter will make a difference. “They are sorry for everyone,” thinks a local resident.
“I have not had a letter on the mat,” laughs Annette who lives in the center of Den Bosch. “I am very annoyed by the bastard behavior that motorists show here. I hear a lot of noise from the outletes as motorists give gas. The cars also drive the wrong way in the narrow streets here.”
The resident thinks it is good that the municipality will enforce extra on traffic homes. “But I wonder what the effect of such a letter is. They are sorry for everyone and pretend that their way is. It is at least a signal from the municipality, because the city center is of all of us,” says Annette.
Another passer -by also wonders what the warning letters will do. “I just saw another car driving past. The planters on the street that should reduce the speed, I didn’t even see the driver. Would anyone read the letter well and put something about it?”
A man who passes by does not think that. “Such a letter immediately goes into the trash,” he says. Nevertheless, the municipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch is going to focus less on separate traffic violations and more looking at multipled. By personally addressing this group of traffic houses, they hope to change their behavior.
“The letter itself may not change much, but the fact that we have these people in the picture and that they cannot show this behavior anonymously,” says Mayor Jack Mikkers.
It is precisely this anonymity that makes some road users sometimes not control. “Many experiments in psychology show that we are pushing limits if we feel anonymous and that we then show more rivier behavior,” traffic psychologist Gerard Tertoolen explained earlier.
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Not only motorists have received a letter, but also Fatbikes drivers. “Conversations with residents of the city center sometimes show to show annoying behavior, because they can get everywhere and sometimes drive past at high speed,” says Mikkers.
Marja notices that too, she walks every week through the center of Den Bosch. “Then they drive past a group just as fast as they want and they shout:” Grandma, go aside. “What makes that strikes,” Marja wonders. “I think it is very antisocial, just like the cars that tear past, turn in the middle of the road and ride against the traffic. They should make the city center car -free.”
“If you say something about it, you get a big mouth.”
Mailvergoer Ton has not yet delivered warning letters, but has a lot to do with nuisance when he rides through the Bossche city center by bike. “Cars and Fatbikes drive way too fast and make a lot of noise and if you say something about it, you get a big mouth. It is good that the municipality is now going to act strictly, although I am afraid that there are too few people to actually act,” he says.
The mayor hopes that letters will be enough to change the behavior of traffic homes. “If that is not the case, a harder approach will follow immediately.” For example, ‘stop conversations’ can take place or a mandatory behavioral and educational process can be imposed.