9-euro ticket: Deutsche Bahn draws a positive balance – employees, on the other hand, are in a “daily state of emergency”

Created: 06/25/2022, 06:51

By: Stella Henrich

Deutsche Bahn takes stock: the 9-euro ticket works.

At the same time, the burden on the company's employees is increasing.

Munich – As is well known, every coin has two sides.

In this game, however, the railway workers have no option: they are always on the side where congestion is immediately noticeable and conflicts with passengers are inevitable.

The train attendants in particular are feeling the effects of this at the moment.

The 9-euro ticket means the daily state of emergency for the employees of the transport company.

Ralf Damde, Vice Chairwoman of the General Works Council DB Regio

The loads at the stations and on the trains have risen sharply, higher sick leave is only a matter of time.

"The 9-euro ticket means the daily state of emergency for the employees of the transport company," says the Vice-Chairman of the General Works Council DB Regio, Ralf Damde, the

.

The federal and state governments would have to ensure that they were relieved – across the industry.

Additional pay and more days off are essential so that employees in local transport, at stations and in security can withstand this overload, Damde continued.

Ralf Damde, Vice-Chairman of the General Works Council DB Regio.

© imago

The works councils of the railway and transport union (EVG) are also blowing the same trumpet.

In a letter to the federal and state transport ministers, the EVG employee representatives criticized the federal government's relief package as a "burden package" for railway employees.

The cheap use of local public transport is at the expense of safety and occupational health and safety.

This should not be.

9-euro ticket: Bahn draws a positive balance

In an internal paper available to the

, Deutsche Bahn (DB) writes that "the 9-euro ticket works".

The number of passengers had increased noticeably – both on weekends and during the week.

The average increase would be 20 to 30 percent.

It also says: The expected chaos, especially on the long weekends of Ascension Day, Pentecost and Corpus Christi in southern Germany, did not materialize.

In some regions, on lines that are already busy with tourists, trains had to be evacuated.

However, this only affected 0.1 percent of all trips.

When it comes to punctuality, Deutsche Bahn admits that regional lines were more crowded than usual, which also led to delays.

But well, that was kind of to be expected and shouldn't have particularly surprised even the passengers.

After all, the topic was also a point of criticism of the railways before the introduction of the 9-euro ticket.

9-euro ticket: train punctuality continues to decrease

Punctuality in local transport is around five to ten percentage points below the normal level at almost 85 percent, also because of the 9-euro ticket.

Delays and long waiting times - an ongoing issue for train passengers.

After all, it is not the passengers that cause train delays, but the rail network.

And that was getting on in years,

comments

also read

Change in income tax: From July there will be more money for employees

Cancer researchers: Vitamin D fortification of foods could prevent more than 100,000 deaths

Deutsche Bahn should therefore expect this truth from its customers.

You should be honest and say that you cannot guarantee punctuality on many routes this year because routes are being expanded so that things will run better in the future,

continued to demand in its commentary.

Despite all the criticism of the situation for railway employees, the 9-euro ticket is basically a successful model, the EVG works councils write to the transport ministers, the

continues to report.

The offer runs until the end of August.

After that it's over.

Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has already put his foot down and ruled out the much-demanded extension.

It remains to be seen whether things will get better for Deutsche Bahn employees from September, whether the burden will decrease and whether everything will get better again.

The most popular hydrogen vehicles

View photo gallery

Stay up to date on consumer information and product recalls with our brand new consumer newsletter.