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Research shows that a considerable amount of the traffic in Zuidas is made up of people delivering parcels. Green Business Club Zuidas is working on a central delivery and pick-up point for parcels. Its plans also involve the use of MyPup electric cargo bikes.
Your bicycle will be removed if you leave it in the street. Around Mahlerplein, scooters parked anywhere except within the designated parking spaces will be ticketed and fines will be issued. Amsterdam Zuid local council plans to introduce these rules later this year, following years of complaints.
We are making Claude Debussylaan greener. We are adding some large clay containers full of plants and around 60 natural stone ‘pouffe stools’ where you can sit and enjoy a bite to eat. The work will take two weeks, starting from 16 January 2021.
On 11 January 2021, we began redevelopment work on the southern section of Mahlerplein. Assistant project manager Doeke Brouwers: ‘It marks a great start to the new year and the end result will already be visible by March.’
More green areas around Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC). This was one of the winning ideas submitted when residents were invited to suggest initiatives for a greener Zuidas. It’s now been made a reality. ‘We really want visitors to be able to take advantage of this green area’, says our green specialist Jeroen Assen.
The Amstelveen line, tram line 25, was put into use. Officially from Sunday 13 December 2020, but it is already possible to hop on. The renovation progressed entirely according to plan. Only the definitive stop at the Amsterdam Zuid station is still a problem.
2Amsterdam is nearing completion. The INNSiDE hotel tower opens shortly, and the office tower will be ready mid-2021. We are now working on the Strawinskylaan immediately in front of buildings. During the night of 10 to 11 December we will apply the asphalt.
In order to adapt the Kapel & Convict grounds to meet the needs of its future occupant, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam music academy, we need to cut down 15 trees that have only limited future prospects. They will be replaced by 26 new trees.
Residents are becoming concerned about the accessibility of the northern part of Verdi, which we intend to develop. They are worried that the area between de Schinkel and Amstelveenseweg will become too congested. Here are the answers to the four most frequently-asked questions.
Space for greenery and nature. That’s what residents would like to see in the central section of De Boelelaan when the street is re-landscaped. In mid-September 2020, more than 250 residents used an app to share their opinions.
From 20 August 2020 we are treating the common limes that are in the middle section of the De Boelelaan again. The objective is to prepare them properly so that after the redevelopment of the road they will prosper at their new spot for many more years to come.
From today, 19 May 2020, the eighth Zuidas Sustainability Report is available online. In it, Green Business Club Zuidas, Hello Zuidas and Amsterdam Zuidas publish details of the most important sustainability initiatives and campaigns in 2019.