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Nieuwe Tarieven NS 2023

What I don’t understand is why such a huge price hike (in my case 16%), given that NS keeps reducing the service. I understand the reduction due to staff shortage, etc. is necessary for providing reliable service. But don’t you offset the extra costs by reducing the service already? The claim that you want commuters to use the trains more often is simply false and you shouldn’t be making that. I was commuting using Dal Vrij and my subscription just got 16% more expensive. Commuting does not only mean peak-hour travel.

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What happened to NS?

And even then it is uncertain if reliability will increase. Trains will be busier and fuller than ever because of the decrease in frequency. It takes just one cancelled train and the next one will be packed. And missing a connection to change trains means in many cases a thirty minutes to one hour's waiting time. If the 20% decrease mentioned above is real, then packing of the trains shouldn’t be a as big of an issue. I think the packing happens partly due to unforeseen cancellations and overall reduced reliability. I’d much rather go in a full train, but know that I’ll get to wherever I’m going, instead of having frequent trains half of which gets stuck somewhere in the middle of my commute. Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts.

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What happened to NS?

NS workers and their work is one of the most important and essential ones in the Netherlands. So if you ask me, the management and the whole country better treat them right and keep them happy 🙂 Yes, but the company should also remain profitable. Subsidies are legally not allowed because NS has a monopoly which was awarded without tendering. I’m not a professional in this field but I feel like a correct response to shortages and other factors that affect the reliability of the system is to scale down the operation to a level where they can provide a reliable service that meets the decreased demand and addresses the increased worker dissatisfaction. They seem to have scaled the operations down and still don’t seem to handle the problem and this is suggestive of managerial problems. 

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What happened to NS?

NS workers and their work is one of the most important and essential ones in the Netherlands. So if you ask me, the management and the whole country better treat them right and keep them happy 🙂My question is weren’t their demands met in a satisfactory manner during the discussions earlier this month?

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What happened to NS?

This year has been a tough one on everyone, with shortages, soaring inflation and everything. But I want to understand what happened specifically to NS? Why did it become so unreliable since the beginning of this year? Is it the inflation? Is it the supply chain interruptions? How exactly do these things affect the company? I had a hope that NS will return to its normal, reliable state after the agreement has been reached with the workers’ union but after two weeks I feel like the problem is much deeper. Any help/explanation appreciated.  Mismanagent and unwilling staff are the major problems. Next to that 20% of passengers has since corona disappeared which has created a huge financial problem. What’s the reason for unwilling staff though? I have a feeling that the passenger disappearance is an effect not a cause, it has a lot to do with unreliability of the service, which is one of the most if not the most important factor in determining the public transport

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