IUCR: Transport

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Berlin yellow tourist bus near Berliner Dom

the Berlin public transport system is supposed to have carried 1.1 billion passengers in 2022? 529.8 million people took the "underground train" (U-Bahn), 200.6 million took the tram and 460.6 million took the bus or the ferry. In 2023, BVG has reached the peak level of 2019 again.
... the Berlin public transport network also includes six ferries? Among other things, they run all year round from Wannsee suburban railway station (S-Bahnhof) to Alt-Kladow and seasonally from Müggelheim to Rahnsdorf.
... the longest ferry route in Berlin, the F10, runs across the Großer Wannsee? The distance is 4.4 kilometres.
... an Englishman set a Guinness World Record in May 2017? Adham Fisher covered all 173 Berlin underground stations in 6 hours, 53 minutes and 24 seconds, breaking the record that was previously set in 2014.
… the Berlin S-Bahn will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2024? On 8 August 1924, an electrically powered train ran from today's Nordbahnhof to Bernau for the first time. Today, 16 lines take Berliners and visitors throughout the city and into the surrounding area.
... the class 485 S-Bahn trains were also fondly called “Coke cans” by East Berliners? The reason was their striking red livery. From 2002, the cars were gradually repainted in the traditional colors - but the name remained.
... with Berlin Central Station, the city has for the first time in its history been given a genuine central interchange station, which is the largest in Europe? Around 330,000 passengers board numerous regional and long-distance trains here every day.
... four ICE Sprinter connections link Berlin with other German cities? The Berlin-Munich journey takes less than four hours and is offered fourteen times a day, whereas the Berlin-Frankfurt route is offered six times a day. The leisurely night travel is also gaining popularity and Berlin is clearly one of the hotspots of this trend: For example, there are direct connections to Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest, Paris, Stockholm, Prague, Vienna and Zurich.
... Berlin's cycling network covers 2,376 kilometres including the outer districts?
... the length of the German capital's public road network is 5,480 kilometres?
... the longest road in the city, 11.9 kilometres, is the Adlergestell running from Adlershof to Schmöckwitz? And the shortest road, Eiergasse in the Nikolai district, measures only 16 metres! The widest road, at 85.2 metres, is not Breite Straße but Straße des 17. Juni.