Public transport in Berlin : Despite closures, no rail replacement transport for U2 and U3

The LOB rejects criticism of the simultaneous blocking of the U2 and U3 in the City West. As reported by the 4. From January to 24. February time blocked both lines, as at Wittenberg, a number of switches need to be replaced. A rail replacement transport, the BVG has no plans for the lines. In the lock-up time, the Green week, even without the construction work and road closures, trains are overloaded. Move the Work, said LPP spokesperson Reetz on Monday.

construction works have a lead time of up to three years, a shift that would bring all the plans mixed up. Reetz said that at Wittenbergplatz built had to be, "otherwise, it means that we let the plants go to waste". The Twitter team of the BVG countered criticism of the daily mirror known blocking different than spokeswoman Reetz with "security reasons". Readers criticized, however, that in the two coldest months, they are going to build, so the bike is no Alternative.

a Complex Change

The BVG published Detours are not so complicated, because the easiest transition to the spichernstrasse of the U3 in the U9 is currently possible. Since April of 2018, will be built there is a lift, therefore, the connection staircase of the U9 is locked to the U3. Until the end of may 2020 must useful to run a several hundred-Meter-long detour along the Avenue. Not even on the BVG was able to take that into consideration, it said.

the Trouble there had been several times in the past, especially when the S-locked-Bahn and BVG parallel paths, so that no detour was possible. So time in the spring of this year the U7 between the railway Hermann stations had been place and möckernbrücke interrupted and parallel to the South ring between Hermann street and Südkreuz. Also, this parallel block is to avoid to have been, as it was then. The passenger Association Igeb-had called for as early as possible in coordination between the two transport companies, preferably at the beginning of the planning stages. Several times were set in the past, the dates so early.

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The station Wittenbergplatz is not particularly complicated

the BVG spokeswoman Reetz said that while there were regular rounds to the vote, "sometimes it's just a different way". This applies now also to the Wittenberg Platz. The track plan of the Station is so complicated, as rarely in the network. Here are three lines and to the West, the routes branch out in three directions: to Ruhleben, according to Uhlandstraße and Krumme Lanke. In addition, the Station is one of the oldest in the network. 4. January holds then only the U1 (Warschauer Straße - Uhlandstraße) in the station.

The BVG will offer passengers four by-Passes. Who wants to with the U2 Ruhleben to Pankow, you have to change trains three Times: the Zoo (in the U9), the Kurfürstendamm (U1) and Gleisdreieck. At each transition, the level needs to be changed, the travel will increase significantly. This also applies for journeys from or in the direction of Dahlem, with the U3. Who wants in the direction of Kreuzberg, you must require either three-Times – Fehrbelliner Platz (U7), Berliner Straße (U9) and Kurfürstendamm (U1) –, or between Hohenzollernplatz and the Kurfürstendamm, the Bus 249. It departs, however, only during the day in Ten-minute intervals, in the evenings and on Sundays every 20 minutes. On as quickly as possible the bypass of U7 and two change-Overs at the Fehrbelliner is likely to be space and möckernbrücke. This, however, is not wheelchair accessible and there is a long way must be walked.

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