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Driving cars at midnight on NYE - where are u all going!?
I'm sure some people need to get to a hos… I wonder about this every single year. There's so many cars on the streets at midnight or a couple minutes after midnight on New Year's Eve. Same last night.
I'm sure some people need to get to a hospital, say giving birth at an inconvenient time. But driving through all the fireworks and crazy people on the streets must be madness. Where is everyone going?
Has anyone here driven through the city at/around midnight and why?
A lot of them are just going between parties. Berlin's NYE public transport gets chaotic after midnight with all the closures and crowded stations, so people who live further out drive instead. I've done it a couple times when I lived in Lichtenberg and needed to get back from a friend's place in Neukolln. The streets are actually pretty empty right at midnight because everyone's watching fireworks, but the real mess starts around 12:15 when people pour out of apartments.
some of it is just people who parked badly earlier and need to move their car before the new year rules kick in. certain parts of the city like friedrichshain have temporary parking bans on main roads for the new year's market setup, so people run out at midnight to shift their car to a legal spot. also the bvg sometimes changes bus routes without much warning on nye, so drivers who normally take the x34 end up driving instead when they realize the last bus left at 11:15
You are forgetting the shift workers. Not everyone has NYE off, there are plenty of people working in hospitals, security, logistics, and late night Gastronomie who need to get home or to their shift right around midnight. I used to work at a Späti near Hermannplatz and drove home at 1am every NYE, it is not as bad as it looks because most pedestrians are too busy looking up at the sky to walk into the street. The real issue is finding parking afterwards since everyone leaves their car wherever they can find a spot.
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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.