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Berlin (dpa / bb) - The new S-Bahn line 21 between the main train station and the north of Berlin will be delayed for another year.
Deutsche Bahn announced on Tuesday that the reason was high additional demands from the construction companies, which had to be negotiated.
"It was about a mid-double-digit million amount," said the group representative for Berlin, Alexander Kaczmarek.
“There was a tough fight over the justification and amount of these additional claims.
The negotiations are now over. "
The demands could have been reduced by half.
"The bad news: We lost time because little was built during the negotiations."
The commissioning of the route has therefore been postponed to the next but one timetable change in December 2022.
It was only in mid-January that the railway postponed the start of this summer to December 2021 - due to corona, as it was called.
The connection is the first section of the so-called City-S-Bahn, which will one day travel to Südkreuz.
Originally, trains were to be running on the first construction phase between the Wedding or Westhafen train stations and the main train station as early as 2017.
However, rescheduling and changed construction procedures repeatedly led to delays.
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The costs had also risen again and again in the past few years.
The railway speaks of an investment sum of a good half a billion euros.
The sum is still current, it said on Tuesday evening.
Line 21, which has been planned for a long time, is to become a new north-south axis for the S-Bahn, which goes up to 20 meters below the parliamentary and government district and leads over the main train station.
This will then be accessible from all four directions with the S-Bahn - so far there has only been an east-west connection.
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