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as big as a fiasco as BER was/is - it turns out it's (attempted) infrastructure expansion. That and stuff like U5 extension, etc (is it a tourist line? sure, bu
by avh02 5y ago
as big as a fiasco as BER was/is - it turns out it's (attempted) infrastructure expansion. That and stuff like U5 extension, etc (is it a tourist line? sure, but it's work being done). Trialing/using Electric buses is another one (though they have suffered in both heat and cold).
I'll grant you digitization being crap - don't understand why copper is still king here.
Politics I don't pretend to understand or care about, i just like that nobody's shooting/assassinating/oppressing each other (turns out that's a surprisingly high bar in the world).
vaccinations definitely sucked/were late, but it's finally now ahead of many (even first world) countries [0]
[0]: some selection: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_vaccinations&Metric=People+fully+vaccinated&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=DEU~Europe~USA~GBR~FRA~CAN~KOR~NLD~ISR https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
- corty 5y agoBER isn't really an expansion, it is replacing the two other airports in Berlin that were more central and had to close down (because they were old and too central to not be a major noise problem), Tegel (TXL) and Tempelhof (THF) and parts of the old function of Schoenefeld (SXF, formerly a regular airport, now just a government airfield, but right next to/part of BER).
- avh02 5y agostill a nicer airport than the dump that was SXF (TXL did have a special place in my heart though) That said, flying budget airlines remains a ridiculous experience at all european airports.