SWOV: “our 80-roads are too narrow’

Posted on 13-08-2013 at 9:27 pm by sir_smokalot – 68 Comments”

In the Netherlands the traffic moves mainly on wide motorways, but there is also 25,000 km to provincial 80-kilometerwegen, particularly important in the less populated areas. These are, according to the Foundation for Scientific Research of road Safety (SWOV) is a tad on the tight side.

With a rijstrookbreedte of 2.75 metres include them even to the narrowest in the world. This is why the SWOV prefer (PDF) that they be widened to a minimum of 3.30 meters per lane.

An average C-segmenter is (without mirrors) about 1,80-1,85 m wide. It keeps maybe not, but if you’re steering wheel is fairly straight you can keep the width of the current roads are sufficient, even if you have a truck in the opposite direction meet, so it seems to me.

In addition, the bottom of the greenhouse on the ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment pretty sight, so a massive widening for a while. This should according to you be a priority, or we can take some digging with our narrow roads? It is not that well each day and masse mirrors will be driven by a lack of space…

The Dutch roads are also increasingly being decorated with a wide double road in the middle, which makes oncoming traffic at a distance from each other. Do you feel nevertheless, you are sometimes insecure due to a lack of space?