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Confidentiality on buses and trains: Spanish conditions in Munich? MVG boss calls for action

2021-01-21T07:08:14.012Z


Public transport continues to have a high risk of infection with the coronavirus. The head of the MVG is campaigning for a measure based on the Spanish model: confidentiality.


Public transport continues to have a high risk of infection with the coronavirus.

The head of the MVG is campaigning for a measure based on the Spanish model: confidentiality.

Munich - mask up, mouth shut!

If Ingo Wortmann has his way, then buses and trains should be quiet.

The head of the

Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG)

spoke out on

Deutschlandfunk

for the introduction of a ban on public transport based on the Spanish model.

This also includes the urgent recommendation that you should no longer make phone calls on public transport.

"We would support that very strongly," said Wortmann in his role as chairman of the Association of German Transport Companies.

In Germany there has so far been no initiative by the federal government or the states to introduce such a regulation.

And in Munich * there are no

plans for a telephone ban

on the table.

"We are relying on the roll call," says MVG spokesman Michael Silva.

So a request “that people reduce their conversations to a minimum”.

Munich: ban on calls in public transport?

Silence helpful, but "difficult to control"

Background

: If you stay silent in local public transport, less potentially infectious aerosols could be thrown into the air *.

Because Wortmann says he has observed time and again that people take off their masks to make calls.

In these times, that does not help to contain the pandemic.

Wortmann also admitted that a command of silence would be helpful against the spread of aerosols, but would be "difficult to control".

He would rely on the common sense of people not to use the phone to protect others.

This is also how the authorities on the Balearic Islands Mallorca and Ibiza handle it.

Since last week there has been an urgent recommendation of the government to remain silent on local public transport due to the high number of infections.

Munich: More vehicles in local traffic because of Corona?

MVG weighs down - "Not possible"

In Germany, in view of the

overcrowded wagons, there is

also discussion about easing the tense situation with the help of additional trains and buses.

A move that Wortmann rejects for Munich.

"We can't do that," he clarified with a view to the tense financial situation.

There are 20 additional buses that have been used.

For example, when schools were still open.

"More is not possible."

There was recently a windfall for the company due to the Corona crisis.

The MVG is "very grateful" - austerity measures have nevertheless been announced.

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Source: merkur

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