“We feel a bit like Asterix and Obelix in that small village, fighting the Romans.” Afien Nap from the action committee is beaming. In 2022, Rijkswaterstaat announced that it would close down the ferry, and two years later euphoria prevailed in the village: outgoing minister Harbers signed an agreement for a bicycle bridge for 20 million euros. In his speech he says: “You were right, we were wrong.”
How a small village got the minister to spend 20 million on a bicycle bridge
