Tiergart tunnel in Berlin: five days of blocking from Monday!

Tiergart tunnel in Berlin: five days of blocking from Monday!

From Monday, June 16 at 10 a.m., the zoo tunnel in Berlin will be closed for five days and four nights. This campaign, which will continue until Friday, June 20 at 6 p.m., is necessary due to planned maintenance and maintenance work, which serve to ensure operating and traffic safety. All road users are asked to bypass the area extensively, since the closure applies continuously during the day and at night. However, the access to the parking garage at Berlin's main station remains possible via Clara-Jaschke-Straße, as rbb24

The blocking affects the entrances to the animal guest tunnel on both the north and southern lanes between Reichpietschufer and Heidestrasse in both directions. According to BZ-Berlin , this measure is necessary for safety reasons, since many of the maintenance work, which include technical facilities such as lighting, ventilation, fire alarm systems and emergency call systems, are only carried out in fully switched off tunnels can.

scope of the maintenance work

Already at the beginning of the month there was a nightly blocking of the tunnel due to necessary repairs. The current work is part of a continuous effort to ensure the security and reliability of the tunnel infrastructure. Road users are urgently asked to observe the designated diversions or avoid the area in large numbers in order to avoid traffic disruptions.

parallel to the maintenance work in the zoo tunnel, there are also extensive maintenance measures in other areas of the Berlin transport infrastructure. Deutsche Bahn has announced extensive modernizations of the rail infrastructure in the North South S-Bahn tunnel for 2024, whereby the work is to begin in January 2024. Among other things, these include the exchange of switches and rails on several sections of the route, which requires a significant blocking of the section between the Gesundbrunnen and Südkreuz. This shows how important the careful maintenance and renewal of the transport infrastructure is for the safety of passengers, according to the information from S-Bahn .