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Rock Werchter, Belgium's annual music festival, opens this afternoon in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, but the rainy conditions of the last few weeks are causing havoc on the roads.
About 34% of the drivers sitting in traffic jams on Belgian motorways at rush hour are not on their way to work, according to a commuter study by the FPS Mobility.
The one-year-old pedestrian zone in the heart of Brussels will be reduced slightly around the Bourse, the city council decided, according to various media.
The average distance travelled by a Belgian worker between his residence and work is 19 kilometres.
It was busier than usual on the Belgian motorways headed inland from the coast, says Peter Bruyninckx of the Flemish Traffic Centre in De Standaard.
Rue de Laeken and Rue du Midi will reopen to traffic in both directions, the aldermen of the City of Brussels announced on Thursday.
Traffic on its way to Brussels National Airport has been backed up to the Brussels Ring Road since early hours of Monday morning.
The launch of the new kilometre tax across Belgium on 1 April has met with protests by truck drivers who resorted to blocking motorway exits and interchanges.
Nearly one in four drivers in Belgium is not familiar with the concept of zipper merging, according to a survey conducted by the Belgian Road Safety Institute (BRSI).
