Since it opened in 2018 I have been using it regularly on my annual visits to the city to catch up with my friends...travelling all points north and south...quite often between Amsterdam Noord and de Pijp. This, despite the fact that I frequently use all of the city's excellent public transport network - its trains, its trams, its existing metro / light rail system, and of course its (FREE) ferries.... This new N-S (numbered M52) line is a truly amazing masterpiece of engineering and design and is so incredible in its complexity and sheer innovation. I really do love travelling on it (something you can not say remotely for any of the UK trains or metro systems) - and despite the fact that it's several years late in completion, and hugely over budget (hardly surprising given its difficult gestation period), plus the fact that presently it still has its usual detractors, the Dutch lead the way in showing the rest of Europe how a brilliantly sustainable mass transit metro system should be built.
There is mixing off two parts off the metro.The one through the old city and the part that was placed on the bottom of the IJ to Amsterdam north.Through the city came first and to the North of the city years later!
Yeah and then add the fact that two people (one civilian and one worker) died during construction. At the north-side of the IJ, sheet piling fell onto a passing motorist that did not survive. The worst part about it was that it went wrong before as well, but without consequences: instead of shutting the work down and evaluate whether it was safe to continue, they kept working like nothing happened, until another piece of sheet piling came loose from the machine that had to push them into the ground and unfortunately caused a fatality. What you also don't hear in this video are the extreme subsidings that took place at the Vijzelgracht and rendered a few homes inhabitable. The tachymeters that took readings of all the reflective indicators sounded the alarm way before the situation escalated. Citizens affected quickly contacted supervisors at the site as doors in their homes suddenly could not be closed anymore or got stuck. No one took any action until the situation became just plain dangerous. Research later showed that many had looked at the data that was clearly telling something started to subside, but no one took action. Another was the subsiding that happened at the Central Station somewhat 15 years ago or so: a citizen got the impression something was off at one of the large building sites and happened to posess a distance-meter. After taking a few readings (to eliminate errors because it was just a commercial consumer device) he found that within 20 minutes, things had shifted 13 centimeters. If I remember it right, the contractor deemed the readings inaccurate 'because a consumer device' but when he called the fire brigade and their readings matched, a large area got shutdown, causing major chaos in the city center.
I'm glad I don't live in such a big city and can eat popcorn watching all these psychotic people move about their urban horror. After that I can go for a walk in the forest up the hill.
Have you ever been to Amsterdam? Or better yet one of the smaller cities in the Netherlands? They’re idyllic; nothing like anything in the US, and they still have good transit systems.
Since it opened in 2018 I have been using it regularly on my annual visits to the city to catch up with my friends...travelling all points north and south...quite often between Amsterdam Noord and de Pijp. This, despite the fact that I frequently use all of the city's excellent public transport network - its trains, its trams, its existing metro / light rail system, and of course its (FREE) ferries.... This new N-S (numbered M52) line is a truly amazing masterpiece of engineering and design and is so incredible in its complexity and sheer innovation. I really do love travelling on it (something you can not say remotely for any of the UK trains or metro systems) - and despite the fact that it's several years late in completion, and hugely over budget (hardly surprising given its difficult gestation period), plus the fact that presently it still has its usual detractors, the Dutch lead the way in showing the rest of Europe how a brilliantly sustainable mass transit metro system should be built.
Almost everyone knows about Amsterdam's trams. However, hardly anyone knows that it has an amazing metro system.
It's small by comparison to other European cities, but bigger isn't better. What do you think makes it so good?
@@frankierogers428 It's sleek and clean. In addition, the trains are fast.
There is mixing off two parts off the metro.The one through the old city and the part that was placed on the bottom of the IJ to Amsterdam north.Through the city came first and to the North of the city years later!
Amazing video. I didn't know what a massive undertaking the tunnel under the train station was
Yeah and then add the fact that two people (one civilian and one worker) died during construction. At the north-side of the IJ, sheet piling fell onto a passing motorist that did not survive. The worst part about it was that it went wrong before as well, but without consequences: instead of shutting the work down and evaluate whether it was safe to continue, they kept working like nothing happened, until another piece of sheet piling came loose from the machine that had to push them into the ground and unfortunately caused a fatality.
What you also don't hear in this video are the extreme subsidings that took place at the Vijzelgracht and rendered a few homes inhabitable. The tachymeters that took readings of all the reflective indicators sounded the alarm way before the situation escalated. Citizens affected quickly contacted supervisors at the site as doors in their homes suddenly could not be closed anymore or got stuck. No one took any action until the situation became just plain dangerous. Research later showed that many had looked at the data that was clearly telling something started to subside, but no one took action.
Another was the subsiding that happened at the Central Station somewhat 15 years ago or so: a citizen got the impression something was off at one of the large building sites and happened to posess a distance-meter. After taking a few readings (to eliminate errors because it was just a commercial consumer device) he found that within 20 minutes, things had shifted 13 centimeters. If I remember it right, the contractor deemed the readings inaccurate 'because a consumer device' but when he called the fire brigade and their readings matched, a large area got shutdown, causing major chaos in the city center.
Wow! Truly awesome.
Wish disUK was still part of your community.
A masterpiece.
From Amsterdam Zuid Station Metro Line M52 must continue in the near future to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
true but that fcks up the name as the line goes from station NORTH(buikslotermeerplein) to SOUTH(RAI)
I'm glad I don't live in such a big city and can eat popcorn watching all these psychotic people move about their urban horror. After that I can go for a walk in the forest up the hill.
Amsterdam? Big City? Um, no.
hear, hear!
@@54northca Amsterdam is a fairly big city though
Have you ever been to Amsterdam? Or better yet one of the smaller cities in the Netherlands? They’re idyllic; nothing like anything in the US, and they still have good transit systems.
Overpriced metrosystem