The warning signs are still on the slip road to the A 111 at Kurt-Schumacher Platz Photo: Wolfgang Stürzbecher
By Birgit Bürkner and Wolfgang Stürzbecher
Tegel Airport has been closed since 2020 and decommissioned in 2021. But on the A 111 autobahn, near Kurt-Schumacher-Platz, road users still see the following signs: Caution, flight operations!
Traffic sign no. 101-10 (flyer in the red triangle) even warns motorists in several places on the federal motorway. Neither Boeing, Airbus nor Cessna have been crossing here for three years. At most a few Muscovy ducks from the nearby Tegeler See.
The traffic sign No. 101-10 (Flyer in the red triangle) Photo: Wolfgang Stürzbecher
Did an authority miss the take-off here? Or is it a loving reminder of Berlin’s airport of hearts?
BZ asked the responsible Autobahn GmbH of the federal government. After all, a spokesman admits awkwardly: “We, as the traffic authority, also noticed the traffic sign, which seems strange in the context of the long suspension of flight operations in Tegel, as part of our current traffic show for all of Berlin’s motorways.”
Translated, this means: You know about the signs that have long been superfluous!
BUT: The traffic sign means that as a driver you have to reckon with very limited flight operations. As a precaution, those responsible asked the Senate administration again whether there was another reason for the warning at this point…
A spokeswoman for the Senate administration said when asked by the BZ: The traffic signs were no longer of any importance for the state of Berlin. Responsibility lay with Autobahn GmbH even before the airport was declassified. They now have to have the signs removed.