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		Clewza313 on April 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Many Faces of Berlin U-Bahn Line U7 A sort of spiritual counterpart (capitalist/communist, yin/yang, Luke/Vader, take your pick) to U7 is U5, the only line built by East Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U5_(Berlin_U-Bahn) Colored what a friend of mine calls scheisse brown, it sprouts out of central East Berlin (Alexanderplatz) far out into the countryside, with forests, fields and dense clusters of commieblocks tightly packed around stations.

ido on April 17, 2021 [–]

And these days it goes all the way to Hauptbahnhof!

pantalaimon on April 18, 2021 | [–]

And Turmstraße and Jungfernheide are already prepared for crossing it.

bobthepanda on April 18, 2021 | | [–]

Hasn’t that officially been shelved in favor of the tram?

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