Who owns BVG now?

Riverty is just the payment processor BVG uses for their app, it's not the owner. BVG is still 100% owned by the state of Berlin, same as it's always been. Riverty handles the billing and direct debit stuff for lots of companies, not just Amazon. You're fine, no Bezos on the U-Bahn.

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yeah no worries, Riverty's just a payment service provider, they do the billing for a bunch of places. BVG is still publicly owned by Berlin, that's not changing anytime soon. just a payment processor thing.

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nah you're good, BVG is still public owned by the state of Berlin. Riverty is just the middleman for payments, loads of companies use them. no amazon takeover here lol

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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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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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