Originally Posted by
DeeGee26.2
Looking at an U-Bahn map, it looks like the X9 follows the route of the U7 part of the way from Jakob-Kaiser-Platz to Wilmersdorferstrasse. Would it not be as quick for me to go that way to Charlottenburg and then S-Bahn to Alex?
I don't mind a bus, to be fair, but I have a greater sense of making progress on a train.
Yes but you have an extra transfer. I'd prefer fewer transfers as in Berlin they tend to involve lots of walking. Unless you know exactly where to board a train and/or you have timed a route to perfection. (c.f. the Green Park thread on the UK forum - I used to do the walk every day even though the escalator route is easier, but only because it saved a longer walk at another station.)