The Afsluitdijk was designed to hold the sea back and reduce flood risk along the then Zuiderzee – but has as side-effect that it connects the Dutch provinces of Noord-Holland and Friesland. When the Afsluitdijk – together with the Amsteldiepdijk – was planned in the late 1920’s, rail was still the major long-distance carrier for […]
The N73 motorway was a planned motorway from Kessenich, via Bree, Hechtel-Eksel, Leopoldsburg, Ham, and Tessenderlo to Aarschot. The section between Kessenich and Leopoldsburg is a 2-lane single carriageway with frontage access, going trough all those city centres except for Peer, where it runs south of the city. Between Kinrooy and Peer the road is […]