Tiergart tunnel in Berlin: five days of closure for maintenance work!

Tiergart tunnel in Berlin: five days of closure for maintenance work!

The zoo tunnel in Berlin will be completely closed from Monday, June 12, 2025, at 10 a.m., for five days and four nights. This measure is necessary to carry out planned maintenance and maintenance work, which will take place both during the day and at night. The block ends on Friday, June 20, at 6 p.m. The Berlin transport administration describes the measure as inevitable, since the tunnel must be closed for all road users for safety reasons, reports rbb24 .

This lock is not the first this year; Previously, a full closure took place in April. The reason for the current blocking lies in the renewal and modernization of leading and security technology. This is crucial for monitoring the technical systems of the tunnel, which was opened in 2006. In April 2025, the costs for the work carried out were around 620,000 euros, such as the Tagesspiegel

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affected by the blocking are both directions of travel and all entrances to the tunnel. However, access to the parking garage under the main train station remains possible via Clara-Jaschke-Straße. All road users are urgently asked to bypass the area to avoid traffic jams and delays. It is expected that the work will take place around the clock to keep the duration of the block as low as possible.

The need for maintenance measures such as this is also underlined by the current context of traffic safety in Berlin. The city's Senate recently decided on a comprehensive traffic safety program by 2030, which is intended to reduce the number of accidents and create safe traffic conditions. Traffic senator Ute Bonde (CDU) emphasized the importance of monitoring to implement the measures, which, among other things, are intended to improve the visual relationships between cyclists and drivers and ensure that pedestrian crossings are not blocked. In 2022, 55 people died in Berlin's road traffic, including numerous pedestrians and cyclists. These figures illustrate the urgency of security measures and maintenance work such as those in the zoo tunnel that not only serve technical security, but also to protect road users, reports rbb24 .