

In 1955, a report published by the municipal government concerning the inner city of Amsterdam-known by the Dutch title Nota Binnenstad-suggested to install a commission to explore solutions to the traffic problems Amsterdam faced. The post-war population boom and increase in motorized traffic shifted the perception of underground rail transport in Amsterdam considerably: whereas in the 1920s, underground rail had been considered too expensive, halfway through the 1950s it was presented as a realistic solution to the problems caused by increased traffic. These plans stalled in the planning phase, however, and it took until the 1950s for the discussion about underground rail to resurface again in Amsterdam. The first plans for an underground railway in Amsterdam date from the 1920s: in November 1922, members of the municipal council of Amsterdam Zeeger Gulden and Emanuel Boekman asked the responsible alderman Ter Haar to study the possibility of constructing an underground railway in the city, in response to which the municipal department of Public Works drafted reports with proposals for underground railways in both 19. As opposed to the other routes, it runs mostly through bored tunnels and does not share tracks with any other route. A fifth route, Route 52, running from the Amsterdam-Noord ( north) borough to Amsterdam-Zuid ( south) via Amsterdam Centraal, came into operation on 21 July 2018. It is the only route that does not cross the city centre. Route 50 connects Zuidoost to the Amsterdam-West borough using a circular line, which it shares with Route 51. Three routes start at Amsterdam Centraal: Route 53 and Route 54 connect the city centre with the suburban residential towns of Diemen, Duivendrecht and Amsterdam-Zuidoost (the city's southeastern borough), while Route 51 first runs south and then follows a circular route connecting the southern and western boroughs. The metro system consists of five routes and serves 39 stations, with a total length of 42.7 kilometers (26.5 mi).
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The network is owned by the City of Amsterdam and operated by municipal public transport company Gemeente Vervoerbedrijf (GVB) which also operates trams, free ferries and local buses. Until 2019 it also served the municipality of Amstelveen but this route has been closed for conversion into a tram line. The Amsterdam Metro ( Dutch: Amsterdamse metro) is a rapid transit system serving Amsterdam, Netherlands, and extending to the surrounding municipalities of Diemen and Ouder-Amstel. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Dutch Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 925 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
