Berlin's Tiergarten Tunnel Closes Again on Thursday Evening Due to Staffing Shortage

The Tiergarten Tunnel in Berlin was scheduled to close again at around 19:30 on Thursday evening, the Verkehrsinformationszentrale Berlin (VIZ) announced. The reason, as the night before, was that no staff were available to cover the tunnel monitoring centre. When exactly it would reopen was initially unclear. The tunnel had already been shut on Wednesday evening due to an "acute personnel failure" in the control centre, with a reopening announced for Thursday morning at 05:30. The staffing problems have been long known. From April, the tunnel had already been closed on many nights over several weeks, and further multi-day closures followed in October. Of the eight positions in tunnel monitoring, only five were recently filled. In October, two of those employees went on extended sick leave due to illness, while a third was temporarily absent.