Gent “By the Oosterweelverbinding in Antwerp will the traffic there easier walk, but the pressure in the region around them – so East-Flanders and Ghent – is increased. There must also simultaneously be invested in better water and rail connections.” That is mobiliteitsschepen Filip Watteeuw. Also Unizo is worried.
“By the capacity of the road network around Antwerp will improve the quality of life there improved, and the congestion of road traffic there addressed”, says Watteeuw. “But the iron law of the file says that where there is more capacity on the road, more traffic is drawn in. And so that will cause problems in our region. I understand is actually not that the impact of Oosterweel in surrounding regions has never been studied.”
Both Watteeuw as Unizo fear in the first instance, increased pressure on the E34 motorway, the motorway of Antwerp, Zelzate. That movement comes on the R4, and goes to the south of Ghent, where the E40 and the E17 intersect. “That is a really london congestion zone, and will be between 2020 and 2025, even completely clog up, if nothing happens,” says Watteeuw. “There is an urgent need for work to be made of the missing links in the city, to get that extra movement to catch and worse to avoid.”
I understand, actually, not that the impact of Oosterweel in surrounding regions has never been studied.
Filip Watteeuw
the Concrete than to a link between the Antwerp Liefkenshoektunnel and the E17, E34 to spare. Also the Sifferverbinding, around the Ghent Sifferdok, must finally come to float the Gent-Terneuzen Canal to the bridge. That has long been planned, but the Flemish government is still not budgeted.
