Zuidtangent

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Zuidtangent bus at a bus stop

A new Citaro G for the Zuidtangent, intended as a replacement for the original fleet

The Zuidtangent is a bus rapid transit service in the Netherlands from Haarlem via Hoofddorp, Schiphol Airport and Amstelveen to Amsterdam Zuidoost, operated by Connexxion as their line 300. Buses run on dedicated bus lanes from Haarlem to Schiphol Airport and use normal roads and motorways for most of the route between Schiphol Airport and Amsterdam Zuidoost. They have priority at road crossings throughout. The province Noord Holland has announced extensions from Hoofddorp (Toolenburg) to Nieuw-Vennep and from Hoofddorp (Beukenhorst) to Uithoorn.

Plans exist to transform the bus service into a tram line. The city council of Amsterdam wants to extend the Zuidtangent from Amsterdam Zuidoost to IJburg, but no funds have been allocated yet.

[edit] External links

• (Dutch) Connexxion Zuidtangent site
• (Dutch) "De Zuidtangent, een rit door het verleden", the history of the landscape traversed by the Zuidtangent.
• (Dutch) Zuidtangent official site of the province Noord Holland.
• (Dutch) Zuidtangent site of the city of Haarlem.
• (Dutch) Zuidtangent site of Amsterdam.
• Photographs of Zuidtangent buses