Berlin S-Bahn beeping: be careful, tinnitus! -Berlin
The older ones among us will still remember times when it rarely beeped. And if it did, it was clear: A bird again. Today, the feathered ones have long been in the minority as authors.
Washing machines and computers beep, garbage trucks and construction machinery beep in reverse gear, preferably in front of the bedroom window at seven in the morning, and also super-quiet electric cars & annoying beeps when reversing. It’s like a constant tinnitus over the city.
The transport companies are not exempt from this phenomenon, which is apparently intended to protect the visually impaired – and the EU, which regulates something like this, is turning louder and louder.
While the old S-Bahn trains close the doors Displayed with the well-known Lalüla, the new alarm clock alarms the passengers with a shrill beep reminiscent of a hoarse blackbird in agony. Dreadful? Dreadful.
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It is still a surprise that this process has now reached the political arena. The SPD state party conference on June 19 will probably call on the responsible MPs and members of the party’s senate to campaign for the return of the Lalüla to the new trains on the S-Bahn. It is “a trademark of Berlin that has endured across all model series and beyond the political division of the city”.
Please, the political separation is a bit of a stretch, but that’s how the EU might be listening. Because the applicants of the SPD preventively undermine their rules: “There is no text that prohibits the Berlin signal tone from being adapted to new needs”. Take that EU! The beaten double negative she clarifies certainly before the party congress.