Infrastructure

New Subway Line U4

The new U4 subway, via Jungfernstieg, calling at the main station and Berliner Tor, and then travelling on as far as Billstedt, will access southern and central HafenCity from fall 2012.

Visiting the tunnel of the new subway line U4 was a unique experience for many people (© ELBE&FLUT)

The new U4 subway, via Jungfernstieg, calling at the main station and Berliner Tor, and then travelling on as far as Billstedt, will access southern and central HafenCity from fall 2012 through the new Überseequartier station. The breakthrough for the second tunnel of the future U4 subway line at Jungfernstieg was celebrated at the end of 2010. This means that the basic work for the new line between the city center and HafenCity is completed; technical development of both the line and subway stations is under way. When operations begin, up to 35,000 people a day are expected to use the line. The station at HafenCity University will start operations in 2013 when the university opens. Another station will connect with Elbbrücken from 2017/18, which will be a subway and rapid transit (U and S-Bahn) junction in the medium term. An additional U4 subway station will be built at Am Lohsepark.

HafenCity already has good and flexible HVV bus services that are constantly being adapted to the growth of the new city district. The first ferry pier has been installed near the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall; two more are to follow at HafenCity University and Baakenhafen. In addition there will be several launch jetties, including in Magdeburger Hafen harbor basin.

Planning and realization of these complex infrastructural measures (except on private land) is the responsibility of the developer, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, owned by the City of Hamburg. 

Financing is covered exclusively by sales of land in the planning zone. However, finance for the new U4 subway line, planned and realized by Hamburger Hochbahn AG, comes out of budgetary funds of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg as well as federal subsidies. The cost of external access to HafenCity, the planned reconstruction of Deichtorplatz, as well as bridges to be built between HafenCity and other city neighborhoods, is also financed out of Hamburg’s state budget.