Bridges

Berlin is supposed to have more bridges than Venice. The Italian marvel with its countless canals has 400 of them. Berlin counts 960. Great. The problem is that many of them seem to be falling apart. 'Elsenbrücke' just showed alarming symptoms. It was not the first time.

Berlin has as many as 2100 bridges. One of them, the 'Oberbaumbrücke', causes problems all the time. Those are not structural, but man-made.

Berlin has 2,100 bridges crossing the 'Spree' river, several channels, roads and train tracks. This means that the German capital actually has five times more…