Germany - Berlin - Old traffic junction control box

A former traffic control kiosk from the cold war era and the modern German city, at the junction of Augsburgerstrasse and Kurfurstendamm in Berlin Mitte. The scene of a traffic controller sitting in the booth, possibly in the 1950s, seems incongruous compared to the modernity of today's city in the background. The word Verkehrskanzel is written at the top, explaining its original purpose as a traffic pulpit at traffic lights, used for manual traffic control by traffic police. Technical improvements to traffic control and congestion information, these kiosks were mostly dismantled in the late 1960s.

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A former traffic control kiosk from the cold war era and the modern German city, at the junction of Augsburgerstrasse and Kurfurstendamm in Berlin Mitte. The scene of a traffic controller sitting in the booth, possibly in the 1950s, seems incongruous compared to the modernity of today's city in the background. The word Verkehrskanzel is written at the top, explaining its original purpose as a traffic pulpit at traffic lights, used for manual traffic control by traffic police. Technical improvements to traffic control and congestion information, these kiosks were mostly dismantled in the late 1960s.