"The S-Bahn is one of our intimacy," said Uwe Johnson in 1964 and warned the West Berlin from the devastating effects of the S-Bahn-boycott of the Senate and unions calling for the Wall. The boycott was to meet the German railways and authorities in East Berlin, the sad result was the decline of the once-modern public transport system in the world. After the reunification of Berlin billion in rail network were used to get it back on the pre-war level. This winter, controls the S-Bahn back to the past: the lack of operational vehicles and staff, stretching to the outskirts were completely shut down last week, in downtown Trains are so rare and so crowded that they avoid possible. Berlin without a working S-Bahn, which is like without Stuttgart main station: an attack on a sense of home in the capital. Actually has to be the angry Berlin Stuttgart role model to follow in the government district and demonstrate en masse against those responsible. But the situation is hopeless: How to get there without the S-Bahn at all? - More columns from the culture Republic related here.
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