New passages for Berlin: BVG and Siemens add a dispute – Berlin

Siemens and the BVG have officially settled their one – month dispute over the purchase of metros at the Berlin firm Stadler. As already reported the Tagesspiegel, the BVG can first order 56 of the desired 80 wagons

The rest can be reorganized if 49 or other wagons Series F 79 are no longer used in the middle of next year. can. Attempting to repair these cars for a longer period of use has shown that the repair may be impossible because it can no longer be repaired. Many of these cars are already parked.

For any wagon that is no longer operational, the OAG may reorder the corresponding capabilities if the non-operational capability is verified. This is done according to a procedure agreed between BVG and Siemens. According to Tagesspiegel information, the decision of the metro manager is authoritative.

Stadler is already building a series for the BVG, whose order can now be increased without bid. On the other hand, Siemens proceeded, although at the present time, unlike Stadler, the group could deliver suitable railways to Berlin. The Chamber of Commerce rejected the opposition.

Siemens then went to court. A good date had failed. In a call for tenders, new railways could arrive at the earliest in about five years. In the meantime, the BVG reportedly threatened another bottleneck of the vehicle without the rapid rearrangement

Siemens: "We help the BVG and the citizens of Berlin"

The order to Stadler has a value between 115 million and 120 million euro. The trains can be used, which are designed for the narrower tunnels of the lines U1 to U4, but currently for the U5 to U9 routes are brought with the larger vehicles, only on the U5, because only there the platforms are sufficiently [19659002] The BVG and Siemens agreed in principle weeks ago. After the Tagesspiegel reported it, Siemens was clearly outmoded and called for renegotiation.

Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta, head of the SNB, thanked Siemens for the pragmatic solution found. "With the agreement we have found, we are helping the BVG and the citizens of Berlin.We will continue to compete for equity and equal opportunities in the future" said Ernst Reuß, head of the Siemens subway division after Thursday's official agreement.