people inside could safely escape. The station was temporarily closed as a result of these fire safety concerns. In April 2017, the Gemeente Vervoerbedrijf (GVB) started to play music through the speakers of underground metro stations as a test. The type of music would depend on the time of day: slow and calming music during rush hours, and energetic music during the afternoon. Stations on the East Line which were of poor quality were renovated in 2010. Another renovation of the stations was finished in 2018. The small entrances of the original design were enlarged. Voids with windows were created to allow daylight into the station. It was also intended to create a larger space above the stairs from the station halls to the platform, but this idea was called off when scans showed pipes and cables in the area. Walls were given smooth curves to "guide" passengers. Prior to the second renovation, the station was commonly used by drug addicts. The station and its surroundings, including the square above, have had trouble with drug addicts "for years", making the area feel unsafe for locals and passengers. Artwork In the 1970s, three major Dutch newspapers—de Volkskrant, Het Parool and Trouw—had their offices at Wibautstraat. (pseudonym: Opland), a cartoonist for De Groene Amsterdammer and de Volkskrant, was asked to make "something journalistic" as artwork for the station. Opland created five artworks for the station that together form a whole piece. The letters on the platform walls are "falling" on the pages of a newspaper. One of the concrete pillars on the platform has the front pages of newspapers visible and acts like matrixes. Above the staircase from the northern hall leading to the platform are headlines of international newspapers, while above the staircase from the southern hall there is a photograph of a nineteenth-century street repeating itself eight times to create an abstract image. There are schematic drawings of printing presses in a void above the track, which are reminiscent of the cartoons for which the artist was known. Despite the relocation of all three newspapers that inspired the artwork, it remains and is considered to have cultural and historical value. In February 2017, an unofficial portrait of Eberhard van der Laan, then Mayor of Amsterdam, was painted near one of the entrances of the station after it was announced that he had an illness. GVB said that the portrait was