Kronenburg is a tram stop within the city of
Amstelveen
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. The stop serves tram lines
5 and
25. Line 25, dubbed the
Amsteltram
Amsterdam tram line 25, also known as the Amsteltram, is a tram line between Amsterdam Zuid station in Amsterdam and Westwijk in Amstelveen. It officially opened on 13 December 2020 (unofficially 4 days earlier on 9 December). Work is underway to ...
before receiving its line number, opened officially on 13 December 2020, unofficially 4 days earlier on 9 December.
The stop is located in an open trench below street level, and resembles a station; it has a centre platform with stairs and a glass-walled elevator leading up to street level. Bridges above the stop carry automobile traffic over the tram line via a
roundabout
A roundabout is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.''The New Shorter Oxford En ...
, and there are also two traffic lanes running under the roundabout parallel to each side of the tram tracks. This stop is similar in design to those at the
Zonnestein and
Sportlaan tram stops. On 9 March 2020, the roundabout above the Kronenburg stop was opened.
Before being rebuilt in 2019 and 2020, the stop used to serve both the low-floor trams of tram line 5 plus the high-floor trams of metro line 51, a hybrid metro/''sneltram'' (light rail) service that opened in 1990. Both lines 5 and 51 shared the same pair of tracks but used separate, adjacent platforms. There were a pair of low-level platforms for line 5 and a separate pair of high-level platforms for line 51, with stairs connecting the two platform levels. Unlike the current stop, the old stop was located at street level and tracks used to cross the street Kronenburg at grade. In 2019, metro line 51 service south of
Amsterdam Zuid station
Amsterdam Zuid ("Amsterdam South") is a railway station situated in the borough of Amsterdam-Zuid in Amsterdam, Netherlands. For a number of years, it was named ''Amsterdam Zuid WTC'', in reference to the neighbouring World Trade Center Amsterdam. ...
was terminated to rebuild stations to accommodate only the low-floor trams of lines 5 and 25.
References
[{{cite web , url=https://amstelveenlijn.nl/nieuws/2020/hoera-kruispunt-sportlaan-is-open/ , title=Hoera! Kruispunt Sportlaan is open , first=Danielle , last=Opdam , publisher=City of Amsterdam , date=14 August 2020 , website=Amstelveenlijn , format= , access-date=31 August 2020 , url-status= , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831234439/https://amstelveenlijn.nl/nieuws/2020/hoera-kruispunt-sportlaan-is-open/ , archive-date=31 August 2020 , language=Dutch}]
Tram stops in Amsterdam