BVG's M10 Tram to Close from Monday, Cutting Last Tram Link Between Prenzlauer Berg and Berlin-Mitte

Berlin transport operator BVG is suspending the M10 tram line from Monday for seven weeks, cutting the last remaining tram route connecting Prenzlauer Berg directly to Berlin-Mitte. The M1 and M12 lines had already been taken out of service in the same neighbourhood, meaning trams that once ran from Eberswalder Straße to Hackescher Markt and Friedrichstraße are now a memory for local residents. With the M10 gone too, Prenzlauer Berg — a densely populated, low-car district in northeast Berlin — will have no direct tram link to the city centre at all. Closures on the U2 underground line and the S-Bahn Ring are also adding to the disruption. One resident, named only as Hartmut B. in the Berliner Zeitung — he works in the transport sector and did not want his full name published — summed up the mood: "Langsam reicht es" (enough is enough). While infrastructure maintenance by BVG is hard to argue against in principle, locals say the accumulation of overlapping suspensions across a single neighbourhood has gone too far.