Traffic Disruption

We regularly receive complaints from residents who say they cannot drive onto or off their driveways because their neighbors are parking across the street. If you truly cannot drive onto or off your driveway, you can report this to the municipal enforcement officers. You can do so viainfo@moerdijk.nl.

• If this works—but only with great difficulty—we won't enforce it.
• If the car is parked across the street from your driveway, we won't issue a ticket either.
• Is the car parked in front of your home, in a public parking space? If so, we won’t issue a ticket, because public parking spaces are not assigned to specific homes.
• If your neighbors' car is parked illegally, right in front of your driveway on “your” side of the street, we will take enforcement action.

Of course, it is also prohibited to park in areas where parking is not allowed. This also applies to parking on curves. You can report this to the municipal enforcement officers.

As a general rule, we hope that residents will be considerate of one another as much as possible when parking.

Vibrations can be caused by road traffic. A road with potholes, holes, or speed bumps can cause additional nuisance. It’s also possible that the home’s foundation no longer meets the guidelines. The latter is particularly common in older homes.

Are these vibrations causing cracks in your home? If so, you may be able to hold the municipality liable. You must be able to prove that the vibrations caused by road traffic exceed the legal standards. Specialized agencies can investigate this for you. If the damage to your home is caused by the municipality’s negligence (for example, insufficient road maintenance or poor policy decisions), it may be possible to hold the municipality liable.

Possible solutions are not always applicable to every situation. For example: rerouting traffic via alternative roads. This often shifts the problem to other homes. Building a bypass as a solution is a very costly undertaking and also takes a great deal of time to complete. When considering the construction of a bypass—for example, to spare a road lined with homes—the public interest is taken into account, and the costs and benefits are weighed against one another.

We usually try to reduce vibrations by removing speed bumps, leveling the road, or smoothing out road markings. It is often difficult to prevent vibrations entirely, especially on rural roads where agricultural and freight traffic make up a significant portion of the traffic.

Cut-through traffic usually occurs as a result of traffic jams on higher-category roads (access roads, state highways, or highways). Many drivers then try to avoid such traffic jams by finding an alternative route.

Unfortunately, tackling cut-through traffic isn’t easy. If we block a road that can safely handle cut-through traffic with obstacles, there’s a high chance that drivers will look for an alternative route—possibly on roads that certainly cannot safely handle those volumes of traffic. That’s why we try to manage cut-through traffic. We try to ensure that cut-through traffic chooses roads that can handle it and—where possible—where it causes less disruption to nearby residents and poses as little risk to safety as possible. We do this, for example, by making it even less appealing—or in some cases even impossible—to use roads that cannot handle cut-through traffic.

In addition, we regularly lobby the provincial and national governments to address their road networks and resolve traffic congestion, so that through traffic on our roads is reduced. However, these are not easy tasks for them either, and they often prioritize roads where the problem is most severe.