Wheelchair Travel in Berlin

Wheelchair Travel in Berlin
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Wheelchair travel in Berlin is best done using taxis and the accessible
busses. There are also many subway stations with elevators to get to the
platforms which provide a good option for wheelchair travel in Berlin.
There is a website to check which stations have elevators that are out of
service.
Overview

I recommend using taxis to get between the tourist areas in East Berlin:
Checkpoint Charlie area, Museum Island, the Reichstag, Gemäldegalerie
area, and the Jewish Museum. You can walk/roll to the sights within
each of those areas:
• Checkpoint Charlie area: Museum of the Wall and Topography of Terror
• Museum Island: German History Museum, Pergamon Museum, Berlin Cathedral,
and Egyptian Museum
• Reichstag area: Reichstag, Brandenburg gate, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of
Europe
• Gemäldegalerie area: Gemäldegalerie museum and German Resistance Museum

Use the Number 100 and 200 busses to get to and from West Berlin
where you will find the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and KaDeWe
shopping store. The Gemäldegalerie area can also be accessed via the
Number 200 bus line.

Wheelchair travel in Berlin is definitely possible using the bus system.
Ninety-five percent of the busses in Berlin are accessible via a ramp that
the driver will lower onto the curb. Both the front and rear doors have
ramps. The busses can lower so in some instances the curb and the floor
of the bus may be level, and you won’t even need the ramp.
Bus
• The route number 100 and route number 200 busses run east-west and are
especially useful for getting from West Berlin to East Berlin.
• The number 100 bus runs from Kurfürstendamm, then along the north side of
the Tiergarten, past the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate, down Unter Den
Linden, over Museum Island to Alexanderplatz.

The number 200 bus follows most of the same route except that instead of
going north of Tiergarten and past the Reichstag, it goes south of
Tiergarten past the Gemäldegalerie and Potsdamerplatz.
• The 147 bus run north-south along Friedrichstrasse and is useful for getting from
Friedrichstrasse station to Unter Den Linden and then to Checkpoint Charlie.
• A single trip costs about 2 euros and an all day ticket costs about 6 euros.
You can buy tickets from the bus driver.
Berlin bus map - click the H in the circle on the right to show where the bus stops
are located

Taxis in Berlin generally aren’t too expensive because the tourist sights
aren’t very far from each other. They are most useful for moving between
areas where there are tourist sights: Checkpoint Charlie to Museum Island,
Gemäldegalerie to Gendarmenmarkt, the Jewish Museum to the Reichstag,
etc…
Taxis
Taxi-Ruf Würfelfunk “0800-Cabcall” AG
+49 (0)800 - 222 22 55
Quality Taxi +49 (0)800 - 26 30000
Funk Taxi Berlin +49 (0)30 - 26 10 26
TaxiFunk Berlin GmbH +49 (0)30 - 44 33 22
More information can be found at the
association for Berlin taxis
If you are going from the former East Berlin to the former West Berlin, consider
using the cheaper, more accessible, and equally convenient bus routes number
100 and 200.
I am not aware of any taxi companies with accessible vans but am currently
looking into it.

There are 77 accessible stations in Berlin which make it a good option
for wheelchair travel in Berlin. An elevator will get you from street level
to the platform level.
Subway/Metro (also known as the U-bahn)
S and U-bahn map (.pdf)
(in German). You can also call 49 (0)30 256-22 096
Interactive map showing where subway elevators are out of service
http://www.amel.gr/index.php?id=54&no_cache=1&L=1#print Metro Map
http://www.oasa.gr/index.asp?tml=1&pageid=116&menu=2&pg=1 Public
Transportation Maps

The S-bahn is the above ground train in Berlin. Most of the network is
not useful for tourists with the exception being a single east-west line
that connects a few of the tourist sights. This line connects Zoologischer
Garten (former West Berlin), the Hauptbahnhof (main train station),
Friedrichstrasse, Hackescher Markt, Alexanderplatz (former East Berlin
near the TV Tower), and Ostbahnhof.
S and U-bahn map (.pdf)
Station accessibility information from www.s-bahn-berlin.de
Train (also known as the S-bahn)

The trams run almost exclusively north and east of the TV Tower at
Alexanderplatz which makes them not very useful for visiting the tourist
sights. Sixteen of the twenty-two tram lines have accessible trams
Tram map (.pdf)
Tram details (in German) from www.bvg.de
Tram
Because of the extensive accessible public transportation system in
Berlin, it’s not necessary to rent a car (and parking can be difficult to
find and expensive). If you are looking for a car with hand controls or a
ramp, I would start here:
www.europcar.de
www.hertz.de
Accessible Car Rental

Transportation page on visitberlin.de
www.fahrinfo-berlin.de - Can search for accessible public transportation
routes (in German). Not very easy to use.
www.bvg.de - Can download “Accessible flyer” (or Flyer Barrierefrei) on
the right side of the page which contains accessible public
transportation information (mainly in German)
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