In the meantime, many passengers are fed up with having to take detours on foot, and to enter and exit trains in the middle of a building site. The newly painted white walls don’t stand out, but the red and white colored warning tape everywhere is very noticeable.

„The state of things bother me“, complains a woman from Venusberg, who has to come to Bad Godesberg for work. „It seems like no one works on this here.“ She is not the only one who can list the nuisances in detail:

Lifts: No matter how often the left button gets pressed, nothing happens. „The bike transport is difficult and annoying, because the elevators are not working“, says a woman from Bonn. Handicapped persons and people with buggies or prams have to figure out themselves how to get up and downs the stairs. At least, passers-by are willing to help very often.

Stairs:There is only one per platform open. „Everybody has to walk the length of the platform to get there“, says the woman from Venusberg.

Display cases:There are none, yet. But black cables are hanging out of the walls where presumably lamps for the timetable displays are going to go. Beside a ticket machine there are cables on the ground, albeit cordoned off, which does not keep people from throwing empty to-go-cups into that corner.

Roofs:„Many areas have no enough light yet“, days Mario Nobis, a commuter. But the roof itself is also still missing, only the framework has been put up in the middle of the platforms.

Ticket validator:There is only one such machine, says pensioner Gertrud Bachmair, who comes from Remagen several times per week. „It takes too long to go there and there are no machines on the actual platforms“, she says. Evina Sosthèhne from Bonn says: „There should be an opportunity to purchase tickets on the platforms too, not only in the entrance hall.“ The machine beside the stairs works.

Original text: Richard Bongartz, Julia Fischer

Translation: Mareike Graepel