Runners in Berlin at the marathon 2021 – every year there are extensive closures in the city (archive photo) Photo: picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Lisa Leutner
From BZ/dpa
Extensive closures due to the marathon are causing traffic delays and traffic jams in Berlin this week and at the weekend.
From Wednesday, the Straße des 17. Juni between the Brandenburg Gate and the Großer Stern will be closed. Further closures around the Brandenburg Gate and in the area between the Federal Chancellery and the Reichstag will follow from Friday.
On Saturday afternoon, the approximately 42-kilometer marathon route through the city will be closed off for the skater competition. From 7 p.m. the cars can drive again. On Sunday, the route will again be closed to tens of thousands of runners from 7.30 a.m.
Release will be given gradually as the runners have passed. The situation on most of the marathon course is expected to calm down from Sunday afternoon.
Police and BVG advise all runners and Berliners to use the S-Bahn and U-Bahn and to observe no parking restrictions for cars. Subway connections will be strengthened. Buses and trams sometimes run on shorter or different routes.
Motorists can only cross and undercross the marathon route via the autobahn or the tunnels at Alexanderplatz and Tiergarten.
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The marathon starts on the Straße des 17. Juni towards Charlottenburg, leads through Moabit, Mitte, past Friedrichshain to Kreuzberg, Schöneberg, Wilmersdorf, Steglitz and back through Charlottenburg and Schöneberg to the Brandenburg Gate.