Dutch morning commute upended by tractors in farmers' protest
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Traffic on Dutch roads was crippled on Tuesday morning as hundreds of farmers drove their tractors slowly along the country's major highways to The Hague for a demonstration.
Around 10,000 farmers plan a protest in The Hague to argue they are unfairly being blamed for the country's nitrogen pollution problem, a major political issue in the Netherlands at the moment.
The country's road and drivers' organization ANWB said in a statement that long traffic jams - more than 1,000 kilometers (621.37 miles) of roadways were reported clogged - caused by the tractors had contributed to one of the worst morning commutes in the country's history.
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