Bus drivers. Where did they get their licenses?

yeah the BVG driving style is a meme at this point, even the drivers joke about it. the thing is most of them get their license through the BVG's own program at the Betriebshof in Lichtenberg, it's like a 9 month course where they learn to drive those big Citaro buses. the issue is they're graded on punctuality, not smoothness, so that's why you get the jerky starts and stops.

if you're on the X34 or the TXL line it's even worse, those drivers are under crazy time pressure because the routes are long and traffic sucks. try the M27 instead, it's a shorter loop through Wedding and the drivers there are usually more relaxed since they're not racing against the clock.

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lol you're not wrong, the BVG driving style is legendary. honestly it's not even about bad licenses, it's just how they train them in the BVG school Tegeler Weg. they focus on sticking to the schedule no matter what, so if they're running late it's full throttle then emergency stop at every Haltestelle. if you want a smoother ride take the M29 or the 100, those drivers tend to be more chill since they go through nicer parts of town and have less pressure

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honestly it's not just BVG, the S-Bahn drivers can be just as wild with the braking. but yeah the real issue is the training at Tegeler Weg, they teach you to hit every green light and screw passenger comfort. if you want a smoother ride take the M41, those drivers are usually more chill since they go through less traffic.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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