Full article: Amsterdam Public Transport Tickets

Public transport in Amsterdam requires the use of an OV-Chipcard -- a paper or plastic credit card-size ticket with en embedded memory chip designed to be read by ticket readers on board public transport vehicles.

For most tourists, day- or multiple day tickets are the best deal. They entitle you to unlimited travel through Amsterdam - day and night - by tram, bus and metro.

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Full article: Dutch Railways dupe tourists into buying expensive tickets

Dutch Railways (NS Nederlandse Spoorwegen) earn millions of Euros by duping tourists who travel from Schiphol Amsterdam Airport to Central Station into buying First Class tickets.

NS claims that's what tourists want, but according to the VVV Tourist Office -- which also sells train tickets at the airport -- tourists usually elect to buy Second Class tickets.

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Full article: Amsterdam public transport company uses Chippendales to promote new ticket system

Amsterdam's public transport firm GVB is using Chippendales in a promotional campaign for its new, chip-based ticket system.

The smart card will soon replace the old ticket system, starting with the subway lines.

The company's price hikes are leading many travelers to complain that while while the Chippendales will not be stripping, the company's customers are being stripped.

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Full article: Amsterdam public transport system to go bilingual

Tourists and expats - both in plentiful supply in Amsterdam -- will rejoice when a plan for Amsterdam's public transport system to start providing information in English, instead of just Dutch, goes into effect.

The plan is part of an effort to make the city more accessible to foreigners. However, a suggestion to provide an English-language police service point was turned down.

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Full article: Misbehaving teens plucked from Amsterdam buses by undercover cops

Police in Amsterdam has for the first time patrolled a public transport bus while they were wearing civilian clothes instead of their uniforms.

Nineteen school children were apprehended for misbehavior, including threats against fellow passengers.

Over the past year Holland has seen a wave of attacks against public transport workers.

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Full article: Completion of new metro line unsure as Alderman resigns over cost overruns

It is unclear whether constuction on the new North-South line of the Amsterdam metro will ever be completed.

After yet another financial setback work on the project has virtually halted -- and today Tjeerd Herrema, Alderman for Traffic, Transport and Infrastructure, today resigned from his position.

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Full article: Unstable Amsterdam is building a new subway line

Seventeenth-century masons built Amsterdam on a foundation of wooden poles planted in soggy, sandy ground, leaving behind a beautiful architectural museum -- but one with walls prone to sinking or crumbling without warning. So how do you dig a subway under it? Very carefully.

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Full article: Amsterdam Central Station

Central Station -- the hub of Amsterdam

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Full article: Public Transport to and from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

Public Transport to and from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

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