Public transport is safer since the introduction of the OV-chip card – nrc.nl

Public transport is safer since the introduction of the OV-chip card – nrc.nl

The gates to the public transport chip card at Rotterdam Central Station. Photo NRC / Maarten Hartman

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Since the introduction of the OV-chip card, about five years ago, the public transportation in major cities safer. Writes Wedding based on its own research. The newspaper looked at transport in Amsterdam (the subway), Rotterdam (the RET) and The Hague.

The public transport smartcard makes dodging difficult because you can only with a map by the closed subway gates. Also in the bus (which you must pass the driver) and the tram is the number of fare dodgers decreased.

But in Amsterdam last year, the number of incidents increased. According to Wedding is because the CFP staff then asked to report. All events

The number of incidents in the other two cities did fall. Rotterdam went from 392 (2009) to 202 (2013). Similarly, The Hague (from 135 in 2011 to 74 last year)

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