Overview
- NorthC’s site in Almere, which caught fire Thursday morning, sent heavy smoke over nearby homes as the safety region issued an NL-Alert telling residents to stay out of the smoke and shut windows and ventilation.
- Service knock-ons followed as SURF said members with systems in the building saw outages and Utrecht University reported login and website problems, while Transdev lost contact with its public transport control room before restoring communications later Thursday.
- Following the dismantling of a temporary setup at the IJsselbrug near Arnhem, drivers faced major delays Wednesday and Thursday with 11 kilometers of queues on the A12 and more than an hour of holdups on short stretches of the N317 and N338.
- Apeldoorn installed temporary camera surveillance around a roundabout and a planned emergency shelter site after repeated protests, citing safety for nearby schools and the need to manage traffic and public order through May.
- About 150 people opposing a planned asylum site near Den Bosch moved onto the A59 on Wednesday, which Rijkswaterstaat confirmed as it halted traffic toward Waalwijk while police monitored the action.