Am 01.01.2012 22:23, schrieb Wolfgang Schwanke:
Upsides of the communist era:

you forgot the quotes around "communist".
No

Wrong -- see quoted above your original text. There are no quotes
around "communist".


The rest of the lines within Westberlin were actually closed down
for profitability reasons, if you want to employ that word. The GDR did
not want to subsidise public transit in another country, a country
which was very hostile to the govenment which subsidised the S-Bahn in
Westberlin.

Oh they did want to do that for much of the time, once they even
claimed the railway lines in West Berlin were East German territory.

The GDR did never have to claim that. This was a fact created by the
occupation statues.

When Schumacher and other West German politicians diveded the county
and Berlin itself, they carefully avoided to challenge the occupation
regime and had kept the Berlin Generaldirektion of the Reichsbahn (or
how that was called) intact.

But somehow they'd lost interest after the employees demanded more
money. So instead of paying more they shut the system down.

Well, that was part of the process. If the Westberlin Senate had
offered their subsidies to the Reichsbahn to operate a proper S-Bahn
network, like they subsidised the U-Bahn in the West, then the
Reichsbahn would certainly have wanted to keep it up, and maybe even
expand it. But the Westberlin rules did the opposite: they did
everything to destroy the S-Bahn network, waging a big campaign against
using the S-Bahn and building U-Bahn lines to directly draw passengers
off from the S-Bahn (e.g. U7 to Spandau).

I know, in the times of Orwellian doublespeak it is difficult to
recognize facts. But you should make an effort.



Cheers,
L.W.