Alphen aan den Rijn Bridge status?

[Suffolk Explorer]

I'm starting planning for next year and wondered if any Forumites knew the current situation at the Juliana bridge at Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands. When is the Standing Mast route expected to be open for yachts? I cannot find anything by Googling and hoped that other Forumites (especially those based in the Netherlands) might have some information.

Many thanks

 

[sailorman]

now open and the debris cleared away. no news on the nxt attempt to relpace the deck

 

[Suffolk Explorer]

Thats good news. Thank you very much.

 

[Daydream believer]

Thats good news. Thank you very much.

I am not so sure it is good news. It is quite possible that they may now change the deck in the sailing season ( or at least when i want to use it) I would have hoped the news would have been - all works fully completed

 

[david_bagshaw]

Dont worry there is another way round via Zouterwoude-Rijn Dijk and Leiden along with kaagerplassen.

 

[sailorman]

Dont worry there is another way round via Zouterwoude-Rijn Dijk and Leiden along with kaagerplassen.

Err, are you sure, the Bridge before the split to the Kaarg

 

[Boz]

I'm an amateur at this really, but the bridge in question is the Juliana Bridge, 2nd Bridge South of the split. If this is impassable then the Staande Mastroute North from Goude is blocked....
(Looking at the ANWB Wateratlas Staande Mastroute)

 

[westhinder]

I'm an amateur at this really, but the bridge in question is the Juliana Bridge, 2nd Bridge South of the split. If this is impassable then the Staande Mastroute North from Goude is blocked....
(Looking at the ANWB Wateratlas Staande Mastroute)

The staande mastroute was effectively blocked. There were even organised flotillas for people who did not have the experience or the confidence to take their boats north or south over the sea.

 

[david_bagshaw]

Err, are you sure, the Bridge before the split to the Kaarg

Afraid you are correct, my mistake.

 

[sailorman]

Afraid you are correct, my mistake.

Tranona suggested my signature :sleeping:

 

[Daydream believer]

On another forum, a Dutch contributor has said that the works were meant to re start in March 2016. However, local news states that this has been put back & works now expected to start in June & take 6 weeks

That effectively puts the kybosh on my intended early summer cruise to Den Helder, then the Ijsselmeer then down the standing mast route to Flushing. So it looks like Channel Islands & Camaret again in 2016. Life can be a bitch sometimes !!!!

 

[sailorman]

On another forum, a Dutch contributor has said that the works were meant to re start in March 2016. However, local news states that this has been put back & works now expected to start in June & take 6 weeks

That effectively puts the kybosh on my intended early summer cruise to Den Helder, then the Ijsselmeer then down the standing mast route to Flushing. So it looks like Channel Islands & Camaret again in 2016. Life can be a bitch sometimes !!!!

we came South on the Staande Mast route this year, having sailed up the outside. it was the hardest of the 4 times i have done it. 3 days in all this time with many hold-ups. There is more sailing up the north but the towns are some how nicer in the Delta

 

[Daydream believer]

I have just been given this link which will need google translate
http://www.zuid-holland.nl/actueel/nieuws/@11242/omleiding-ouderijn/