The ‘Schiphol tax’ does not seem to be going ahead. The plan for every traveler going through the airport to pay two euros so that the expansion of the North/South line can be financed with this, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management blocked. That reports The Telegraph.
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Outgoing minister Barbara Visser (VVD) sees little point in the plan of the ‘Temporary Accessibility Allowance at Schiphol Airport’
“I think it is very important that every passenger or employee who travels to Schiphol does not have to pay extra for this,” Visser told the newspaper. “Schiphol is simply a public space and a meeting point for everyone. I think it is really undesirable if an extra amount had to be paid specifically for that trajectory.”
The Schiphol Tax is a plan of the alliance of governments and companies that wants to extend the North/South line to Schiphol. More money is needed to extend the metro, partly because the 1.5 billion euros promised by the cabinet otherwise there will not be. Various options were therefore investigated, of which the two-euro surcharge was a ‘promising form’.
These travelers benefit from extending the North/South line, because it creates more space in the train, on the track, in the bus and on the road around Schiphol,” said Alderman Egbert de Vries on behalf of the Amsterdam Transport Region.
That plan now appears to be off.
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