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The Amsterdam Metro (Dutch: Amsterdamse metro) is a rapid transit system serving Amsterdam, Netherlands, and extending to the surrounding municipalities of Diemen and Ouder-Amstel. Until 2019, it also served the municipality of Amstelveen , but this route was closed and converted into a tram line.
The 15G trams assigned to the Amsteltram have the red-silver R-net livery rather than the blue-white GVB livery. The R-net livery will still incorporate the GVB logo. R-net (short for Randstadnet) is the hallmark for high-order public transport in the Randstad; it also used on the Amsterdam Metro. All other trams in Amsterdam use the GVB livery.
In Amsterdam, Vervoerregio Amsterdam decided to use the R-net livery and logo on all metro trains but on only one tram line . The GVB blue-white livery is used on all other Amsterdam tram lines. [5] In the GVB's order for 72 15G trams from CAF, 25 trams have in R-net livery with the remainder in GVB livery. [6]
The 15 tram lines within Amsterdam's tram network serve all boroughs in Amsterdam except for Amsterdam-Noord on the north side of the IJ and Amsterdam Zuidoost. [2] Tram lines 5 and 25 extend south of the borough of Amsterdam-Zuid to serve the municipalities of Amstelveen [4] and Uithoorn, [5] and tram line 19 extends east of the borough of Amsterdam-Oost to serve the municipality of Diemen.
The OV-chipkaart system was first implemented in the Rotterdam Metro in April 2005. The Amsterdam Metro followed suit in 2006 by accepting the card as an alternative method of payment. All trams and buses in Rotterdam accepted the OV-chipkaart from June 2007 onwards, and coverage in Amsterdam was extended to all trams and buses in November 2008.
Amstelveenseweg is an Amsterdam Metro station in the south of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The station opened in 1997 and is served by line 50 and 51 (Isolatorweg - Gein & Centraal Station - Isolatorweg). Amstelveenseweg station is an "important" transit point as the metro crosses several bus and tram lines.
It includes all tram systems, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area.
With the metro, several regional trains running between Amsterdam's stations and the airport could be cancelled, making room for more international and long-distance trains. The extension will not be implemented at least until 2030, as the national government has refused to release funds for this project. [ 11 ]
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