The Rotterdam football club Feyenoord will be celebrated on the Binnerotte in the center of the city today. The football players won the battle for the KNVB Cup against Nijmegen’s NEC 1-0 in De Kuip on Sunday evening.
Storm Henk came entered the Netherlands with authority on Tuesday night. Firefighters were dispatched in various parts of the country to remove trees blown down by the strong winds. Train traffic was also disrupted on a number of routes. Road users were warned to take dangerous situations into account.
The high-speed line is again a major headache for NS and ProRail. Last month, half of all Intercity Direct trains between Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Breda arrived late. Travelers’ organization Rover wants compensation, AD reports. From January to July, 22 percent of all trains were delayed by five or more minutes. In October, that was 30 percent. And last month, 47 percent were delayed.
When the Russian invasion of Ukraine forced urbanists Oleksandra Naryzhna and Anastasiia Palii to leave Kharkiv in March 2022, the Dutch city of Rotterdam was an obvious choice for a temporary home. It’s a place that provides Ukrainian urbanists and architects with “a lot of opportunities,” Palii told the Kyiv Independent.
Train travelers on the Rotterdam Central Station - Tilburg route are the most often frustrated by delayed trains. Nearly a third, 31.4 percent, of trains on this route were delayed by more than five minutes, RTL Nieuws reports based on the most recent half-year report NS sent to parliament this week. All routes with the most delays are in the busy Amsterdam - Tilburg - The Hague triangle.