Transport Office Occupìed near Utrecht
Vrienden van GroenFront! - 23.11.2001 15:23
On Monday, November 19th, 50 activists from Green Front (the Dutch branch of Earth First!) and Friends of the Earth Utrecht occupied the Nieuwegein office of ´Rijkswaterstaat´, the government infrastructure planning office, to protest expansion and relaying the A12 motorway.
On Monday, November 19th, 50 activists from Green Front (the Dutch branch of Earth First!) and Friends of the Earth Utrecht occupied the Nieuwegein office of ´Rijkswaterstaat´, the government infrastructure planning office, to protest expansion and relaying the A12 motorway. They stormed in, dressed as Dutch traditional ´zwartepieten´ (moor assistants of holiday-saint Nicolas), spending time throwing around traditional pepper nuts, until they were dragged out by the police through an emergency exit. Rijkswaterstaat has been one of the major lobby parties behind the expansion, that is taking place in a salami-slice style. IN 1996, Green Front occupied a construction site, when the motorway was being expanded between Utrecht and Bunnik. Now, not only will the A12 be widened to six lanes, it may also be relayed right through historical forrest area between Bunnik and Driebergen, east of Utrecht. The trajectum decision was recently made, the construction could start in two years time.
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