Passengers at Köpenick station will have to prepare for some construction work over the next few years. From 2027, however, the new station should be ready Photo: Ralf Lutter/BZ
By Ole Kroning
For more than 20 years, rail customers in Berlin’s largest area have been waiting for the long-promised regional train station. A comment from BZ editor Ole Kröning.
Now the excavators are finally rolling in Köpenick. It will be four years before the construction of the regional connection and the renovation of the long overdue S-Bahn line are completed.
But Köpenickers are used to waiting: in traffic jams on the streets around the train station, as users of the S 3, for whom there are no more trains when there is a jam somewhere in the ailing Berlin S-Bahn network.
As the client and responsible for the long start-up of this project, Deutsche Bahn comes off surprisingly cheaply. She has to spend herself for just 33 million euros.
The remaining 387 million will be borne by the federal and state governments. A rogue who recognizes tactics behind it. There are other construction sites waiting.