Would a Maglev U10 be good actually?

honestly, the space along Greifswalder is there but that viaduct would still be a massive eyesore. Have u seen how loud the U2 gets when it's elevated near Bülowstraße? Maglev would be quieter but still, that's a lot of shadow and noise for the flats right there.

and rebuilding the whole M4 corridor as a metro feels like overkill when the tram already runs every 5 minutes during rush hour. the real bottleneck is the Ringbahn crossing, yeah, but also the fact that the M4 gets stuck in traffic at Ostkreuz. if they'd just give the tram its own lane through there it'd prob solve half the problem for way less money.

the U10 idea has been floating around since the 50s for a reason - it's not that it's a bad route, it's that Berlin always picks the most expensive tunneling option over anything pragmatic. a maglev viaduct feels like a tech demo more than a serious transit proposal tbh

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the funny thing is that maglev tech has basically zero track record in regular city transit. shanghai's line works but that's airport to city center, not weaving through prenzlberg. the moment something breaks on that grellstraße crossing ur looking at weeks of replacement bus service because no other train can use the same track

i do think the u10 corridor needs something better than the m4 though. that stretch past danziger straße is brutal in the evenings, tram just crawls. if they're serious about speed they should just do a proper elevated u-bahn with standard gauge, not some experimental system that locks berlin into proprietary tech for decades

the real missed opportunity is that they already own most of the land along greifswalder from the old tram depot era. could've started building a conventional elevated line years ago for a fraction of what the u5 tunnel cost. but berlin loves digging holes i guess

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Have you actually looked at how much space "plenty of space" takes up? Greifswalder Straße is 30 meters wide at best, and a maglev viaduct with its guideway and safety margins eats at least 8 of those. That's a whole lane of

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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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