To counter this, people will have to pay at the barrier, €1.20 – which used to be €2.20 – for the first eighteen hours. “This will not only affect train and bus passengers, but also carpoolers, who serve the same purpose”, the business association Stichtse Vecht (OVSV) wrote earlier in an urgent letter. They also wonder where these cars will now be parked. “The consequences are for the middle class and shoppers in Breukelen, from where it is only a five-minute bus ride to the station.”