Many district politicians are not exactly enthusiastic about the signal that the Munich city council is setting with the abolition of the 365-euro ticket.
District - The Munich city council's rejection of the 365-euro ticket hits public transport visionaries to the core.
The cost of the MVV-wide savings tariff for the state capital seemed too high for the majority faction from red-green.
The end of a nice episode for the district too?
The 365-euro ticket is no longer a utopia.
Proponents consider the Austrian city of Vienna to be a shining example.
In Hesse, trainees can use the student ticket to travel by bus and train for one euro a day.
The districts of Munich and Würzburg followed suit.
As the “Mainpost” recently reported, the 365-euro student ticket in the Würzburg district will only cost 165 euros from August.
Schoolchildren and trainees in the Munich district benefit from the savings tariff.
Decision a little early?
The decision of the Munich city council to forego the 365-euro ticket comes at an inopportune time.
In a few months, the MVV and its shareholders will be dealing with the tariff reform of 2019 on a regular basis. Controversial issues such as price jumps at the transitions between the tariff zones should come up on the occasion.
At least until the evaluation of the tariff reform, the 365 euro ticket would not have had to be buried in Munich, agree critics of the Munich decision, such as SPD district chairman Florian Schardt.
Understanding of the decision
Schardt can hardly be right that red-green of all things gave the 365-euro ticket the stab in the back.
On the other hand, he expressed understanding for the decision of the comrades.
The pandemic hit the city badly.
"At the same time, customers ran away from MVV."
Reminder of election promises
According to Schardt, the application formulated by the opposition from the CSU, the Left and the ÖDP / FW to realize the 365 euro ticket by December 2023 was fraught with pitfalls.
The savings ticket for Munich is valued at a good 100 million euros a year.
"To demand a three-digit million amount in such a financially difficult situation, that was certainly no coincidence," speculates the district councilor who lives in Ottobrunn and recalls the election promise made by Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) in 2018 that the cheap ticket in cities like Munich by 2030 at the latest, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Regensburg and Würzburg to introduce: "I would dare to predict that nobody will say no if the Free State finances the ticket!"
A bus doesn't just have to be cheap
Christoph Nadler (Greens) is also not happy about the decision from Munich.
The district parliamentary group leader is beyond that to stick to instruments such as the 365-euro ticket.
“What use is a cheap bus to me if it doesn't come?” It is more important to improve service structures in the MVV and to expand the infrastructure.
"Instead of distributing the scarce funds across the heads of every MVV customer with a watering can, offers such as the social ticket or trainee tariffs should be precisely tailored."
Ticket does not make you happy alone
The district office has also parted ways with the idea of a 365-euro ticket as the only salvific savior.
After the attempt at the resistance of the MVV co-shareholders to at least integrate the densely populated northern municipalities into the inexpensive M-Zone, the 365-euro ticket seemed to be a good alternative.
In the meantime, people are betting on the flat rate;
on a single tariff for the MVV network area.
Against the background of the expansion of the network area, which is also being sought, a non-precisely defined flat rate should be good for the MVV tariff structure, it is said.
The district office deliberately does not mention an amount in order to keep open the "possibility of necessary price adjustments", the possibility of reacting to "otherwise completely unattractive price structures", especially in rural areas.
To tariff jumps
To avoid in the tariff zones, the district compensates for the difference in the cost of a ticket from zones M1 + M2 to the cheaper M-zone tickets. The measure is only valid for annual subscriptions (IsarCard, IsarCard 9 a.m., IsarCard 65, IsarCardJob and training tariff I or II) and is limited to 2020 and 2021. There are currently no plans to extend the voluntary offer.