Posts tagged #berlin
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Reform Pathways and the Automation Question: What Berlin Could Do Tomorrow
Federal operations funding, employer levies, congestion charging, and driverless trains — proven solutions exist for every aspect of BVG's crisis. The question is political will.
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Vienna, Zurich, Munich, Hamburg: What Working Transit Looks Like
Every solution to BVG's crisis has been implemented somewhere in Europe. Four cities show what competitive wages, stable funding, and political commitment actually achieve.
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Why BVG Drivers Walked Out: Wages, Strikes, and the 9.8:1 Ratio
Berlin pays its transit drivers less than any other major German city while its CEO earns more relative to workers than any other state-owned enterprise. The 2025 Ver.di strikes were the result.
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Austerity, Concrete, and Compounding Debt: The Policy Failures That Built a Crisis
How the Black Zero balanced budget, a federal funding structure that rewards new construction over maintenance, and a procurement debacle created BVG's €3 billion infrastructure hole.
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From Division to Decay: How Reunification Broke Berlin's Transit
Berlin's BVG inherited two incompatible transit systems, a billion-mark loss, and a policy framework that would starve it of funding for three decades.