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Opening Transit Payments (with Urban Caffeine)

The Urbanist Agenda

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The Benefits of OV Chip Cards in the Netherlands

Here in the Netherlands, we have a system called OV chip card. It's a card that you load money onto and can do auto-top up like most of those kind of cards. But what's great about it in the Netherlands is that it works through the whole country. You can take transit to a train station, take train station to the other side of the country and then get on a bus or a tram in that city. And I'm still using the same payment card for the entire country, which is really remarkable.

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