I love my city's public transportation system!

[rike_tikki_tavi]

In Berlin blue is the colour of the U-Bahn, the underground train network, while green is the colour of the S-Bahn, the above ground train network. To make things more interesting on some lines the U-Bahn runs above ground and the S-Bahn runs underground. But anyway, our topic is blue, so here we have


This is the entrance to the newest underground station in Berlin. It's right next to the Reichstag and the line it belongs to has only three stops. They plan to connect that line to another one, that ends at Alexanderplatz at the moment, but the projected end of the construction time is 2017.


And this is the very old-fashioned entrance to the station Französische Strasse. The station is in what used to be East-Berlin, but the line, which services it, begins and ends in parts of the former West-Berlin so between 1961 and 1990 no trains stopped there and at the other East-Berlin stations of this line and GDR citizens were prohibited from entering those stations. They were called ghost stations.

Comments

[meloukhia]

I love these! Then again, I do have a soft spot for pictures of places I have't been.

[rike_tikki_tavi]

If you should ever find yourself on this side of the world, Berlin is definitely worth a trip.

[darkemeralds]

Cool! There's something so comforting about signs for the underground. They say, "Come in here and we'll get you where you're going!"

The story of ghost stations is fascinating. Well, the whole story of a city split in two for 30 years is fascinating. Thank you for sharing these pictures.

[rike_tikki_tavi]

I love public transportation. As much as I enjoy driving a car, public transport tends to be so much more practical a lot of the time.

[darkemeralds]

I've always been a bit of a transit wonk myself. Until I bought a bike a year ago, public transit was my principal means of getting around, and provided me with most of my reading time. It's a wonderfully civilized thing to have.