{"id":140767,"date":"2022-05-31T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T10:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=140767"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:18","slug":"students-are-still-paying-5-million-euro-on-public-transport-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/05\/31\/students-are-still-paying-5-million-euro-on-public-transport-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Students are still paying 5 million euro on public transport fines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The total amount of fines for students and former students who forget to cancel their public transport chip card fell to five million euros in 2021. A new payment system to be introduced at the end of 2023 aims to reduce the figure still further.<\/p>\n

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Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf is pleased<\/a> with the measures for reducing the number of public transport fines for students. The record amount of 52.6 million euros was set in 2014. According to a new survey, the figure in 2021 was five million euros.<\/p>\n

But where have all those fines come from? Since the introduction of the public transport chip card in 2010, students have had to activate their \u2018transport entitlement\u2019 at a public transport ticket machine. When it expires, they also have to deactivate it at a ticket machine. Anyone who fails to do that on time gets fined, apparently to prevent misuse.<\/p>\n\n\t

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