Why is the U-bahn in Berlin so fucking good?

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cause people aren't allowed to take their bike in the first carriage

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>>1058252
>It was built much after the London tube and precautions could be taken to avoid the problems that the tube has.
>it was built soon enough that subsequent urban development focus on the U-Bahn as a backbone.
>It was built in the capital of Germany. Capital cities are something with representative function. An impressive rail-based transit system helps make an impression and foster the city's identity.
>It was the backbone of transportation in the capitals of both the GDR and the FRG for decades.
>GDR was a Stalinist state, which really liked public transportation and an overall focus on the capital
>FRG was a social market economy which also liked public transportation
>after the reunification, active efforts were made to fuse the separate networks back together and expand them into an even more superior system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvcpy4WjZMs

>>1058252
Because they love you
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2pic3FnvUrY

They ought to put in ticket barriers everywhere

Too many hobos and punks

>>1058557
>>1058566
kek

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>>1058659

German autism

>>1058659
damn, does that look comfy~

>>1058659
According to wiki the original roof burned twice (1980, 2012) and it now has a faux-thatch roof that retains the same look.

>>1058692
Guess it's better that way. You can probably only tell if you look real closely. Apparently the station was voted most beautiful in Erope by Japan a couple years back. The only downside is that it is located in Dahlem.

>>1058885
Best station desu

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>>1058885
this is how it looks from the inside

Is it?

>2 profile systems
>lines build during cold war don' follow today's traditional zoning of the city
>the expansion of the only U5 line takes decades

S-bahn is better in Berlin.

>>1058966
>ulbricht bahn
no thanks

>>1058985
The East was way more into U-Bahn and Straßenbahn than into the S-Bahn. Meanwhile, the west shilled rapid transit and cars so hard that they scrapped all their tram lines until 1967.

>>1058999
i still won't use the ulbricht bahn, you dirty commie

>>1059087
Why not? The GDR has crumpled 27 years ago

>>1059227
thanks to people not taking the ulbricht bahn

>>1059266
ok by now you gotta explain this meme to me

>>1059272
He read somewhere that the East Berlin U Bahn was called Ulbricht Bahn after Walter Ulbricht. Now he thinks he's funny, so he repeats it hoping someone gives him a (You) kek.

>>1058557
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvcpy4WjZMs

The singer recently committed suicide by throwing himself on under a train btw.

>>1059289

Fake news.

>>1059272
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Bahn-Boykott
in case you don't speak german, here a short summary:
>s-bahn services in all of berlin were run by the east german reichsbahn
>after 1961 (and in some cases before) west german politicians and unions called for west berliners to boycott the s-bahn to finiancially damage the gdr

>>1059274
>the East Berlin U Bahn was called Ulbricht Bahn
no

>>1059289
i know

>>1058591
>Too many hobos and punks

Apparently not enough to pose a problem.

>>1059289
>suicide by throwing himself on under a train
>>1059305
>Fake news
From what I get, the only fake part was that it had been a tube train. In fact he did get run over by a train, just an intercity one

http://uebermedien.de/12835/is-nicht-egal-berichte-zum-tod-von-kazim-akboga/
http://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/saenger/kazim-akboga-ist-tot-50422264.bild.html

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berlin also has the best public ferry service

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>>1059464
nah

>>1059449
zzz

>>1059529
>xxx
>>1059464
[spoiler]SPIKE DIES![/spoiler]

>>1059480
"[spoiler]SPIKE DIES![/spoiler]"
">This is a quote"

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>>1059536

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an elevated subway station

>>1059903
Holy shit that was the station straight next to my hotel. Comfy views to the elevated track from my window.

Nice station.

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>>1059903
i prefer hallesches tor

>>1059903
Holy fucking shit. I swear I've dreamt with exactly this station once. I haven't even known this existed until now...

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>>1059903
>>1059905
I spent two nights in this hostel in Hamburg looking directly at the elevated rail of the Hamburg S-Bahn. Once every two minutes, a train would come through sounding a loud alarm in the middle of the night. Hostel was still bro-tier though

>>1058252
because it isn't operated by DB

>>1060174
Good answer

>>1060891
Why is it so clean? Is that CGI?

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>>1060892
Sure looks like it. Here's how it looks IRL

>>1060891
>>1060901
Both pictures show an equally clean & tidy station. The first one is taken with a longer exposure time, which is why it looks brighter.

>>1058252
There are STILL difference between East and West Berlin,desu

>>1060915
Yes
East Berlin has trams

>>1060892
It's fairly new (opened 2009).
Representative station under the Bundestag might be cleaned more often.
And most importantly: Until the U5 connection is done, the U55 is a meme shuttle line that is barely used compared to other lines, so there is nobody who could leave trash.

>>1060891
>>1060901
>>1060932
Actually upon reverse searching them, it seems both pictures in this ITT are from August 2009, a few days after opening.

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>>1060930
i'm really hoping they'll expand more tram lines into west berlin

>>1061132
Berlin could very well have the largest network in the world, if they covered most of the west with tram lines again.

>>1061136
yeah, i was trying to find a map of the tram network before the war, but haven't been able to find anything showing the whole network

although this list gives a pretty good impression on how vast the network used to be:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_der_Stra%C3%9Fenbahn_in_Berlin#Umstellung_der_Stromabnehmer

>>1058252
>>1058252
from like ~'98-'02 i visited my german half of my family as a toddler, the thing i loved most about every single visit to berlin was riding the ubahn. dunno why it was/is so entertaining or satisfying to this day but it is. shame i havent gone back since i was like 6 bc of 9/11 or becoming poor either one idk, lost my german too rip

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>>1058252

>>1063394
I wish non-captial cities had stations this pretty/creative

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>>1063672
Nurberg subway entrance

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>>1063698
I prefer this one for a slanted entrance building.

>>1063705
I somehow missed that when I walked past the illuminati tower

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i wonder how it felt to drive throught the DDR ones
>with the doors open
(drivers left them open so people could jump on and leafe the ddr)
>completly dark station
>just some stasi guy patroling the halls with a flashlight.

>>1063705
based

because billions from other German states are poured into the city.
Berlin on its own couldn't afford or maintain shit

>>1067507
t. butthurt dorftrottel

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>>1067513
t. butthurt Plattenbau Harzer