Pollution is so bad now that the speed limit will be reduced to 100 km/h between 6am and 7pm. Bizarrely, the limit was increased to 130 km/h not too long ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50396037
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50396037
Can other countries justify their higher limits, such as the UK's 70 mph?The daytime speed limit on Dutch roads is to be cut to 100km/h (62mph) in a bid to tackle a nitrogen oxide pollution crisis, according to cabinet sources widely quoted by Dutch media.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte said it was a "rotten measure" but necessary. The existing limit of up to 130km/h will still be permitted at night.
The new limit is set to come in next year along with several other measures.
Ministers have been grappling with ways of responding to the emissions problem.
"No-one likes this," Mr Rutte told a news conference. "But there's really something bigger at stake. We have to stop the Netherlands from coming to a halt and jobs being lost unnecessarily."
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