Special motorway rush hour lanes should be open more frequently to deal with extra volumes of traffic, transport minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen said on Tuesday.

In addition, new highways are to be made a standard two times three lanes wide and two times four-lane highways will be the new norm in the central urban belt known as the Randstad.
The measures are contained in a new policy document outlining planning and infrastructure policy, which the minister presented on Tuesday afternoon.
Schultz van Haegen is also aiming to give regional planning authorities more room to take their own decisions so that government officials can focus on issues of national and international importance.