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Working at home slashes traffic congestion by 63%, Afsluitdijk was jam black spot Photo: Depositphotos.com Working from home slashed the length and duration of traffic jams on Dutch roads by 63% this year, according to motoring organisation ANWB. In the first two months of this year, the number of jams rose by 20% but that came to an abrupt end on March 15, when the Dutch government introduced its ‘intelligent’ lockdown. There were traffic jams again in the summer, when the good weather encouraged people to visit beaches and nature reserves. The decision by many to holiday at home also b...

The Navigational History of a Challenging Inland Sea The 32km-long dam called the Afsluitdijk, separating what was then the Zuiderzee from the North Sea, was completed in the Netherlands in 1932. It transformed the Zuiderzee from a large, shallow bay of the North Sea into a freshwater lake, which was renamed the IJsselmeer in a reference to the River IJssel – one of the major branches of the Rhine. This feat of Dutch hydraulic engineering signalled the end for the Zuiderzee and its rich history. However, evidence of that history still remains in what used to be the seabed, much of which h...