Trial against cut-through traffic in Velsen-Noord by Tata Steel postponed due to work on traverse

The one thinks it is a pity that the test will not take place, but the other ‘may now leave the plan on the shelf’, according to reactions on social media. Yet another is disappointed that he has not been able to use the refurbished bicycle path that runs under the traverse for four months now. “Excellently coordinated municipality of Velsen,” he says on Facebook.

The municipality says it is ‘surprised’ by Rijkswaterstaat: the Velsertraverse would not be renovated until later this year. “We would have liked to have been informed earlier, so that we could have coordinated the planning of the cut-through traffic test in good time. We are of course pleased that the Velsertraverse can now be repaired in the short term and that two lanes towards the Velsertunnel will become available again. For the However, this does have consequences for the implementation of the cut-through traffic test.”

According to Rijkswaterstaat, to repair the concrete cracks in the traverse, it is necessary at least two months work is being done on the road, and according to the municipality there will be ‘traffic measures and diversions that will have a considerable impact’. As a result, the results of the trial against cut-through traffic in this period will not be representative.

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Velsen-Noorder and Tata Steel employee Kees van Gammeren not happy with the design of the test against cut-through traffic. But he calls the fact that it will not take place at all for the time being ‘a pity’.

From May, the Grote Hout or Koningsweg would be prohibited daily between three and five o’clock in the afternoon from Wenckebachstraat. Around that time the service of many steelworkers ends. From the Wenckebachstraat, traffic from Tata Steel sometimes tears into the village at high speed.

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That speeding cut-through traffic still needs to be banned from the village, says Kees. “Only give residents from the street a sticker, so that a traffic controller can let them through and the local residents do not have to drive all the way around.” According to the municipality, the test should now take place after the summer holidays.