The Berlin Senate is going too slowly: the subway expansion takes forever

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The Senate in Berlin is finally trying to expand the subway, but the process is too slow. If we really want to drive the traffic turnaround, we have to expand the fast rail trails, Gunnar Schupelius' opinion. The CDU SPD Senate wants to redeem its election promise and plans to extend the subway lines. The focus is particularly on Rudow's U7 to BER Airport. However, it was thought that the plans could be on the table and the construction could start. Instead, it is now being examined whether this extension is necessary at all. The Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment ...
The Senate in Berlin is finally trying to expand the subway, but the process is too slow. If we really want to drive the traffic turnaround, we have to expand the fast rail trails, Gunnar Schupelius' opinion. The CDU SPD Senate wants to redeem its election promise and plans to extend the subway lines. The focus is particularly on Rudow's U7 to BER Airport. However, it was thought that the plans could be on the table and the construction could start. Instead, it is now being examined whether this extension is necessary at all. The Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment ... (Symbolbild/MB)

The Senate in Berlin finally strives for the expansion of the subway, but the process is too slow. If we really want to drive the traffic turnaround, we have to expand the fast railways, according to Gunnar Schupelius.

The CDU SPD Senate wants to redeem its election promise and plans to extend the subway lines. The focus is particularly on the U7 from Rudow to BER Airport.

However, it was thought that the plans could be on the table and the construction could start. Instead, it is now being investigated whether this extension is necessary at all.

The Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment (SenMVKU) shared: "SenMVKU will take on the project management for the upcoming tender and develop the profitability investigation. The result of the economic investigation is the basis for deciding further planning steps."

In German this means that the Senate leads a tender to commission an external company with whether the further construction of the U7 is worthwhile.

But this knowledge has long been obvious: the Rudower spider was overloaded before the opening of BER. It's about connecting Neukölln to the airport. Buses are not enough for that because Neukölln is a big city. The district has been asking for the further construction of the U7 for 20 years and now the "Development of the Economy Search".

Once again it is obvious that bureaucracy inhibits progress. The subway construction is financially supported by the federal government. However, an "profitability investigation" must be presented, explains the senator for mobility, transport, climate protection and the environment, Manja Schreiner (CDU). But isn't that faster?

There is nothing more obvious than the need for a subway connection to the airport. A route has been kept on the Berlin side for decades, which leads to the airport next to the Waltersdorfer Chaussee via Lieselotte-Berger-Platz. This route could sometimes be built more cheaply than an open route. A BVG feasibility study from 2020 "confirmed the operational feasibility", as it means.

The BVG has already proven how important the expansion of the subway is and demands the expansion of the network from currently 150 to 371 kilometers. These include, for example, the extension of the lines U3 from Krumme Lanke to Klein Machnow, the U9 to Marienfelde, the U6 to Lichtenrade, the U7 to the airport, the U8 to the Märkische Viertel, the U1 to Heerstrasse in the west and to Antonplatz in the northeast - as well as the extension of the U7 to the airport.

The BVG has so far failed due to the resistance of the Greens, which have blocked the expansion of the subway in the Senate by 2023. They only wanted to expand the network of the tram.

But these are dreams. The only alternative to the car is quick connections to the subway or the S-Bahn. If we really want to bring about the so -called traffic turnaround, these railways must be expanded. This is obvious and should be clear to anyone who is not ideologically foggy.

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