Amsterdam braces itself for new OV-chipkaart

Puffin13 · Post by **Puffin13** » Thu 27th Aug 2009 05:31 am

Amsterdam braces itself for new OV-chipkaart
26/08/2009

In an editorial, de Telegraaf writes Thursday will be a crucial day for the Amsterdam metro and its passengers who will no longer be allowed to use the strippenkaart. Passengers will be required to use the new ov-chipkaart to check in and out.

Amsterdam’s public transport company (GVB) will have hundreds of assistants on hand to help passengers with the new system.

“It is questionable if this will be enough to avoid chaos. The experiences with the smart card have not been that positive… For instance, half of the 120 ticket machines in the capital have been suffering from breakdowns and other glitches every day,” writes the paper.

De Telegraaf writes the reason for the failure of the machines could be due to the GVB trying to save cost by ordering the ticket machines and the disposable cardboard smart cards from different companies.

Two percent of the expensive throw-away cards do not work, which means that 600 clients are duped every day.

De Telegraaf points out Rotterdam had a lot of problems when it introduced the chipkaart and that Amsterdam metro passengers can "only hold their breath".

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Kingdoc · Post by **Kingdoc** » Thu 27th Aug 2009 09:02 pm

Thats been in the post for a bit now,The stippenkaart is in its death throws now & to be honest i was never a fan of them,Thou it is sad a little bit of history is gone just like the gilden & yellow trams

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Kingdoc · Post by **Kingdoc** » Wed 2nd Sep 2009 09:52 pm

Here is that new travelcard

http://www.gvb.nl/english/travellers/ti ... icket.aspx

Bargian if you ask me

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Bifton · Post by **Bifton** » Fri 4th Sep 2009 10:04 pm

Kingdoc wrote:Thats been in the post for a bit now,The stippenkaart is in its death throws now & to be honest i was never a fan of them,Thou it is sad a little bit of history is gone just like the gilden & yellow trams .

I liked the StrippenKaart as you was able to take it home and use it the next time I was over.
I agree with this from Puffin13's post 'Two percent of the expensive throw-away cards do not work, which means that 600 clients are duped every day..' I bought a throw away ticket to get me to coffeeshop central and tried to use it to get back and it didn't work and had to buy another one.

Kingdoc · Post by **Kingdoc** » Fri 4th Sep 2009 10:28 pm

Bifton wrote:
Kingdoc wrote:Thats been in the post for a bit now,The stippenkaart is in its death throws now & to be honest i was never a fan of them,Thou it is sad a little bit of history is gone just like the gilden & yellow trams .
I liked the StrippenKaart as you was able to take it home and use it the next time I was over.
I agree with this from Puffin13's post 'Two percent of the expensive throw-away cards do not work, which means that 600 clients are duped every day..' I bought a throw away ticket to get me to coffeeshop central and tried to use it to get back and it didn't work and had to buy another one.

Surely you can take it back no?.

Bifton · Post by **Bifton** » Fri 4th Sep 2009 10:32 pm

The only ones I saw were the 24, 48, 72 hour ones or the ones you bought on the tram. Mate tend to get really stoned when I am there so if there is one you top up like the oyster card please soneone let me know.

Marco · Post by **Marco** » Sat 19th Sep 2009 12:03 pm

OV SUCKS! It is way more expensive. It was common here that if you SK was a few minutes over the time they would let you on. Or the person would let you on with only 2 strips if that is all you had for 3 strip trip. Now the ticket taker has no leeway. I hate it