Europaweg, Groningen
Traffic and roadworks on the Europaweg in Groningen, on a live webcam from the construction firm.
About this view
The Europaweg carries traffic into Groningen from the south-east, and this live cam, a construction camera put up for the works, watches the road and the work along it.
Building cams are a genre of their own in the Netherlands: they exist to document a project, and the picture fills with cranes, diggers, closed lanes and the patient rerouting of cyclists, who get their own bridges and tunnels here. Groningen has spent years rebuilding its southern ring road, the largest roadworks the city has seen in decades, and the Europaweg is one of the roads that feed it, so the lanes in the picture shift as the phases change. In a city where the bicycle outnumbers the car, the diversions for bikes matter as much as those for traffic.
Groningen keeps Central European Time, UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer. The city has some 240,000 people and a university founded in 1614, its rush hours fall in the early morning and late afternoon, and its northern latitude gives long summer evenings and dark winter afternoons.
