Nearly all public transport shut down for three minutes in protest against violence

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Throughout the Netherlands, trains, city and regional buses, subways and trams stopped for three minutes on Saturday at 10:30 p.m. This protested against the violence that is regularly used against public transport staff.

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Almost all public transport in the Netherlands stopped for three minutes from 10:30 p.m., after an NS conductor was assaulted on a train between The Hague and Delft last week. This involved all 190 NS trains that were en route, Arriva trains and carriers in various cities, including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague. In those cities, the trams, subways and buses also stopped at 10:30 p.m. In Amsterdam, the ferries across the IJ also pa…