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Dutch Flowers Light Rail
Ill. Comité Floralijn 2002; Joost Veerkamp 1997
The Dutch Flowers Light Rail (officially called South-tangent')' is
a new transit in the Amsterdan South-West region. It connects a.o. the
historic town of Haarlem with the national airport of The Netherlands
(Schiphol). Currently it is under construction as a busway, but there
are serious options to convert it to tramway/Light Rail.
The
first phase (Haarlem-Schiphol) is under construction. Extensions are planned
to IJmuiden, Amsterdam, Uithoorn and Nieuw Vennep. Opening of the first
phase: January 1 2002, coinciding with the opening of the socalled Floriade,
an international Flower-exhibition.The South-tangent will contect a flower-exhibition with a flower city (historic Haarlem)!
Stops, designed by VHP (Rotterdam) and DOK (Amsterdam).
This pre-Light Rail busproject won the European Public Transport Prize
1998.
What's in a name? South-tangent: it does not contect main-centres, but
peripherical zones producing new activities.
QUOTES:
Maurice
Nio (VHP): "The South-tangent is an 'American-style' project."
Jacobse (project manager): "First the South-tangent has to prove itselve
as a high-quality busway."
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