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  • Jul 19

    Merwedebrug indefinitely closed to trucks as steel weakness threatens arch; transport sector warns of 'enormous' impact

    Rijkswaterstaat closed the A27 bridge near Gorinchem to all freight traffic on Saturday after discovering the arch's steel is weaker than previously assumed, risking deformation under heavy loads. The indefinite closure, the second in a decade, compounds pressure on an already strained Dutch road network.

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