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Rotterdam
The Rotterdam metropolitan area has about 1.1 mill. inhabitants and, although located about 40 km inland, it is the largest sea port in Europe.
The current metro system comprises two lines, one north-south and the other east-west (including two light rail branches), which are interconnected at the western end between Tussenwater and Spijkenisse De Akkers. Initially the two lines were only referred to as the Noord-Zuid-Lijn and the Oost-West-Lijn, until in the late 1990's Rotterdam's people decided to name them after two of the city's most famous sons, the humanist and philosopher Erasmus of Rotterdam, and Pieter Caland (1827-1902), the father of the Rotterdam waterway.
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