Overview
- Crew teams are working through late May as industrial climbers wash 25,000 square meters of glass on the station’s ten arches, the first full window clean in ten years.
- The operation targets platforms, stairs, lifts, overhead masts and wayfinding signs, and it removes graffiti and chewing gum.
- Deutsche Bahn estimates the Frankfurt effort at more than €175,000, with a separate €150,000 budgeted for 24 other stations in the region.
- Station managers say the focus reflects the hub’s role as a gateway for up to about 500,000 travelers on the busiest days.
- The cleanup is part of an April Sofortprogramm that expanded enhanced cleaning from roughly 700 to 1,400 stations and increased on-site staff and cleaning rounds at major hubs like Frankfurt.