Editing Maastricht (section)

=== By car ===
Maastricht is served by the [[A2 motorway (Netherlands)|A2]] and [[A79 motorway (Netherlands)|A79]] motorways. The city can be reached from [[Brussels]] and [[Cologne]] in approximately one hour and from [[Amsterdam]] in about two and a half hours.

The A2 motorway runs through Maastricht in a double-decked tunnel. Before 2016, the A2 motorway ran through the city; heavily congested, it caused air pollution in the urban area. Construction of a two-level tunnel designed to solve these problems started in 2011 and was opened (in stages) by December 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.a2maastricht.nl/page.aspx?id=334|title=A2maastricht.nl - Homepage A2 Maastricht|website=www.a2maastricht.nl|access-date=31 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503054342/http://www.a2maastricht.nl/page.aspx?id=334|archive-date=3 May 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In spite of several large underground car parks, parking in the city centre forms a major problem during weekends and bank holidays because of the large numbers of visitors. Parking fees are deliberately high to encourage visitors to use public transport or [[park and ride]] facilities away from the centre.