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BER Airport - What is this???
Case #217: Security. Why, oh, why does the airpor… I just don't get how a first class economy that prides itself in "efficiency" and engineering can launch a new airport with this level of ineptitude.
Case #217: Security. Why, oh, why does the airport security agent need to MANUALLY push the plastic containers through the X-ray scanner? I don't know how many times I've been in a long-ass line and I stand there watching as the security person chats with a traveler and forgets to push the containers through. The containers just wait there, piling up, and we all have to wait until the security guy/gal remembers to puuuuuuush them through.... and only then can the next person can walk up and unload their stuff.
Seriously, this adds 50% to the waiting time. This is a solved problem and every other country in the world has implemented it.
Sometimes I feel like Berliners just like the rustic charm of the 1800s before digitalization and machines.
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honestly the manual tray thing is just peak berlin energy at this point. the worst part isn't even the delay, it's that they have the conveyor belts installed and working at the other security checkpoints - terminals A and B have them fine. but whoever designed C thought nah, let's keep it analog. i just go to the little-known check-in area near the s-bahn station these days, it's quieter and the staff actually push the trays on autopilot.
the manual tray thing is annoying but have you seen the berlin spirit pinball machine they put near the mcdonald's in terminal a? it's a weird flex for a city that can't figure out basic airport logistics. if you really want to save time, skip the main security lines and use the one near the s-bahn exit on the ground floor - it's usually dead and the staff there have a rhythm going. still a mess but at least you're not watching someone daydream about their weekend plans while your bags sit there.
lol welcome to berlin, where we spent a decade and billions on an airport that still feels like a wip. the security thing is maddening but honestly it's not even the worst part - wait til you see the baggage claim area where the carousels just... stop working for 20 minutes at a time. i've started timing my arrivals around the schönefeld shuttle just to avoid the main terminal chaos when i can.
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What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
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.
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
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.