Travelers’ association not happy with proposed rush-hour surcharge NS

Rover doesn’t name the additional cost for journey throughout rush hour the best answer for the monetary issues of the NS. “A instructor can not stand in entrance of the category later as a result of the prepare has turn into unaffordable,” says Rover director Freek Bos. “The local weather and housing tasking requires that the usage of trains and buses ought to enhance. Chasing vacationers out of rush hours quite causes the alternative.” The variety of prepare passengers remains to be decrease than earlier than the corona pandemic.

Heijnen wrote that the NS can also be affected by elevated vitality prices and better salaries resulting from inflation. The federal government additionally needs to deal with this. NS might not must pay an allowance for the concession and the railway firm might obtain a subsidy.

The choice of operating fewer trains can also be being mentioned, says Rover. Bos thinks this can be a mistaken improvement. “Rover calls on the cupboard to cease the demolition of public transport and to deal with the expansion of prepare use.”

events have acquired the proposal from the federal government and now have six weeks to reply. The concession should be awarded earlier than the tip of the 12 months and Heijnen needs to do that to the NS.