[Air-l] trains in the low countries before AIR meeting

[Philip N. Howard]

Dear AIR Friends:  one of our colleagues at PIALP just discovered major
construction on the train routes between Amsterdam and Maastricht for next
Sunday, the day before our get-together.  Plan carefully.
Phil
Philip N. Howard
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Washington

> I was just checking the NL train system website to re_print out time
tables
> for myself, and it seems that they're doing construction on the tracks
> between Amsterdam and Maastricht and so particularly on Saturday, but on
> Sunday as well, some trains are being re-routed and it appears from the
web
> site that you have to take a bus between two cities...rendering a two
> change trip into a 5- train/bus change trip...ick. Pack light.
>
> Check it out at http://www.ns.nl/ Go to trip planner, and put in Schiphol
> and Maastricht (note this doesn't even get you to the train station by the
> hotel--that's often another hop onto "Maastricht-Randwyck" one station
> further south from Maastricht-Centraal.) and your times...