Nowadays this view is inaccessible. You only get a split second to look when you drive your car at 120km/hour. In the winter of 1998 I took some moments to explore it. But I've only scratched the surface of this heap of spaghetti.
The Ring - Knooppunt Ridderkerk
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The Beneluxplein is the largest
and highest set of fly-overs on the Ring of Rotterdam.
This is how it looked during the construction. Nowadays this view is inaccessible. You only get a split second to look when you drive your car at 120km/hour. In the winter of 1998 I took some moments to explore it. But I've only scratched the surface of this heap of spaghetti. |
| I had to infiltrate an appartment
building to get a good view. Unfortunately it was a dark
and bleak winter afternoon. You can see it in the low
contrast of the pictures. Not even a large amount of
image-processing could remedy this. This is the eastern part, in the direction of Ridderkerk. |
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| Here you're looking at the middle
part, with the high fly-over. You're looking North, in the direction of IJsselmonde. |
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To get under the fly-over you have
to follow the bicycle path, and go south from the Van
Brienenoordbridge. When you're under the fly-over you
have to cross a mud-field and climb up a steep slope in
full view of the passing cars. This will lead you to this
peaceful spot. It is possible to climb into the concrete girders. They're hollow and high enough to sit in. Theoretically it would be possible to crawl through to the next pylon. But you would cross the highway at a height of 10meters or more. One slip and you would fall through the slit in the bottom. And there is no way to place protection. I've been thinking about this possibility a long time ..... |
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© 1999 Petr Kazil - Updated 27 November 1999