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End to Maze on the Amsterdam metro stations
door Ruben Eg: Who more often the subway, there won't be as much trouble with it. But for the less well-known guests in the capital, the metro system and the Amsterdam metro stations sometimes a true maze. One drive is by a clearly visible "m-cube ' easy to find, but another can be hard because this Board is hiding behind trees or under transitions.
Who more often the subway, there won't be as much trouble with it. But for the less well-known guests in the capital, the metro system and the Amsterdam metro stations sometimes a true maze. One drive is by a clearly visible "m-cube ' easy to find, but another can be hard because this Board is hiding behind trees or under transitions.
Amsterdam has also no overarching way to metro travelers the way. So give the signs with routes on the stations on the Ring line in the West no light, leaving them in the evening hardly read. On the much older East line is this remarkably enough though settled, but the signs are somewhat outdated.
CONFUSING
And so there are different signs and signposts at all 33 metro stations. Sometimes good, sometimes downright confusing. Also at the municipality was that still some painful discovery.
"It's so grown over the years," explains Hans Smit of the Department property and management of the service to the Metro and Tram hodgepodge signs. Smit guides a project that from this autumn should create uniformity in the ' road ' in the Amsterdam metro system: "so that the signs and information there on each drive looks the same."
SIGNS
Main adjustments are new M-cubes, on standard high visibility locations outside the stations, and the placement of so-called ' triangles ' route on the platforms. The idea is copied one of the signs in the subway of Rotterdam, London, Milan and Paris.
"As you will soon by the stairs or escalator the platform enters, then you come across a triangular sign", Smit describes the route triangle. "On the left and right side you see which drives follow if you tube on that side. So you see at a glance where you should and on which side you need to be. On the third side contains information of the CFP, such as timetables and special notices. What time the next metro comes you see then on a digital display on the platform. "
APPARENT
But also for exit press the situation improved: "everywhere the same signs, which clearly state where you can find the exit. Or the emergency exit in case of emergency. Useful for Locals that what is less known are on the drive or the neighborhood where they get off. And for day trippers that the Metro system of the city do not know. " Information points on transferring and attraction points in the neighborhood have already been posted.
The new route triangles be placed this fall. The platforms on the underground stations on the East line are early next year's turn, as this renovation. As this work is, are also the new M-cubes on all drives on ' logical and find places '. As this work is, are also the new M-cubes on all drives on ' logical and find places '.
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