National government's "short-term thinking" is jeopardizing public transport, critics say
11 months, 3 weeks ago

National government's "short-term thinking" is jeopardizing public transport, critics say

NL Times  

The public transport systems in Dutch cities are at risk of stagnating or deteriorating due to decisions by the national government to either cancel or block funding for improvement projects, said labor union FNV Spoor and public transport passenger association Rover in interviews with AD. But because investments in public transport will only become visible in ten years, they may be afraid that it will cost votes now," said Henri Janssen from FNV Spoor. We now have to make a plan for the coming decades, but that takes courage.” Like Rotterdam, Amsterdam said it will drop its metro extension and the Zuidasdok project if the national government does withdraw the 1.7 billion euros. The government, and therefore a new Cabinet, will have to do things differently.” Without a long-term vision, the roadways will remain clogged by traffic jams, and the municipalities will be hamstrung and unable to develop their local public transport networks, they argued.

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