Bus route 65
The West Berlin bus route 65 (until 1966: A65) was set up by BVG on November 26, 1958 . The intention here was to compete with the S-Bahn operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn with a bus line running parallel to the Berlin Ringbahn . The line initially ran from Charlottenburg over the first section of the newly built city motorway from Kurfürstendamm to Hohenzollerndamm to Tempelhof Airport . On September 28, 1960, the journey on the city motorway from Hohenzollerndamm to the Detmolder Straße exit was extended. In 1962 the final stops were relocated to the Neukölln district at Schulenburgpark and the new residential area Charlottenburg-Nord . The city motorway, which later became the A 100 , was not yet fully operational at the time.
For the stops, bays with waiting shelters were created next to the hard shoulder, which were connected to the rest of the road via stairwells.
On December 20, 1963, the line was already placed on the city freeway at Jakob-Kaiser-Platz and only departed again at the end of the city freeway at that time, on Detmolder Strasse.
On May 1, 1971, line 65 in the north was extended to the Seestraße underground station via the Goerdelerdamm, which had been developed as a motorway and formed the northern ring of the city motorway from the summer of 1973 .
From August 22nd, 1973, line 65 traveled the entire length of the city motorway.
In the Innsbrucker Platz autobahn tunnel there is a stop on line 65 that has never been used until today, the stopping bay now serves as an emergency stopping bay for damaged vehicles, the intended stairway access now forms the emergency exit and ends at the distribution level of the subway . The stop is still shown in the plans for the tunnel, but after completion it was not used, the reasons are still unknown today. The continuation of the city motorway under the former Reichsbahn premises on Sachsendamm, which had been planned for decades, was probably missing, which meant that it was initially not possible to continue. When the city motorway was continued, line 65 had already been pulled from the southern city motorway. It is also questionable which transfer options between bus routes 84 and 65 were to be created.
In 1980 the journey time from Seestrasse underground station to Schulenburgpark in Neukölln was 58 minutes. The ride on the city ring took 20 minutes. In 1979 the line between Hohenzollerndamm and Wexstraße was removed from the autobahn, and from 1985 onwards, due to renovation work on the autobahn, it was already drawn from Halenseestraße over the parallel streets. In 1986 the departure already followed at the Kaiserdamm motorway exit , this was justified with road construction work on the motorway. Even after the completion of this construction work, however, the line between Knobelsdorffstrasse / Kaiserdamm and Wexstrasse in front of Innsbrucker Platz remained on the city streets. On June 2, 1991, the bus routes were divided into a three-digit number system for the entire Berlin-Brandenburg transport association (VBB), the old route 65 was now given the number 105.
With the commissioning of the S-Bahn-Südring in December 1993, the line became superfluous and was discontinued in December 1993. Some stops on the Berlin city motorway are currently still visible.
Sources and web links
- Bus traffic on Berlin's motorways
- Berlin line chronicle , historical lines and sketches of the Berlin traffic lines
- On the line: The 65, a very special line ... , Joachim Faust, Weddingweiser (website on the former Berlin district of Wedding)
- Overview of images with bus waiting systems on the Berlin city motorway
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Isabell Jürgens: The construction of the city motorway began 60 years ago . In: Berliner Morgenpost , October 16, 2016