Free view in Berlin: BVG makes Brandenburg gates disappear from subway windows

The Brandenburger Tor graphics on the windows often caused trouble in the passengers of the Berlin subway.Now will no longer be used in the future.The Berlin transport companies do without the symbols on the windows on their new trains.This was announced by the BVG at the passenger correspondence day of the Berlin passenger association IGEG on Thursday evening.

Accordingly, the next generation of the Berlin subway, the JK series with transparent scratch protection foils to protect against vandalism, is delivered on the windows.

The pictograms of the Berlin landmark have been adorning the discs of the underground railways for many years - much to the annoyance of many passengers, because the bright symbols that stretch over the entire windows disturb the view outside.

For a long time, a graphic error also ensured that the pillars of the gate were visually completely incorrectly presented.The BVG only changed the design in 2016.The mistake was recognized immediately, but did not want to throw away the whole film, it was said at the time.

Now the view of the new trains should be free.The first prototype vehicles of the new series will be delivered from the end of 2022.Series delivery should then begin around a year later in late 2023.For 2024, the BVG expects about 200 new trains for its fleet.

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The BVG ticket controls are now more visible.These should no longer be incognito.A spokesman for the BVG said.

Since then, they have been wearing blue vests with the imprint "on behalf of the BVG"."This is how it looks more official," said the spokesman.Before that, there were complaints that the employees were not sufficiently identified as such.

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The change initially only applies to the subway sector.80 inspectors are in use for the BVG every day.40 are employed directly at the transport companies, the personnel pool of external service providers comprises 130 forces.