A10 Zuid speed controls during works on 23-25 January

As always, our working area on the A10 Zuid will be cordoned off with clearly recognisable beacons and our builders will be working at a safe distance from passing traffic. Despite this, people driving fast and those who ignore red cross signs regularly make our colleagues feel unsafe. For this reason, the police will be conducting speed controls in order to ensure traffic keeps to the revised maximum speed of 70 km/h. This not only feels but actually is safer.

Safer for construction workers and for drivers

Particularly after the works in the summer of 2025 that lasted 16 days, we received reports from colleagues about a lack of safety caused by fast traffic passing by. And, of course, it can be nerve-wracking if a truck weighing thousands of kilos drives past just a few metres away when you are working. It helps if road users are aware of this problem. There is also the added issue that drivers need to focus on the different traffic situation and keep an eye on the matrix signs that light up. All of this is much easier if they are not driving too fast.

Risks

Although we have not yet experienced any accidents with Zuidasdok, that sense of a lack of safety is not without cause. There is a possibility that an inattentive driver could actually crash into our staff. A car could also hit an orange bollard that then flies into the air, causing serious danger for one of our staff or other road users. This is why we are doing our best to improve safety. For example, cordoning off the working area using beacons: red and white panels with a solid grey base that are significantly heavier than the bollards referred to above.

Are there other solutions?

More robust steel or concrete barriers could certainly help. But it takes a long time to position and move these. This will be especially difficult during the night-time closures later this spring, which will involve dynamic road closures where the number of lanes closed changes. We do not have time for this during the upcoming weekend closure. What about completely closing the A10 Zuid? That would only move the problem to the inner roads in Amsterdam and we are determined not to cause further inconvenience for residents, pedestrians and cyclists.

23-25 January: first speed controls

From Friday, 23 January (22.00) until the morning of Sunday 25 January (10.00), we will be preparing for the construction of a new Schinkelbrug bridge. For this purpose, we are closing the A4 in the direction of the A10 Zuid and the police will use a mobile camera to check the speed of traffic travelling past our working area.

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