MVV Munich is increasing its prices - by a whopping 3.7 percent.
At this price increase one can only shake one's head.
Dirk Walter comments.
Munich - That's hearty: Tickets in the area of the Munich transport and tariff association MVV are 3.7 percent more expensive than in previous years.
This increase is extremely clumsy and unimaginative.
And it torpedoes all the nice talk about the supposedly so important traffic turnaround.
Munich: The price increase could have been averted - who still wants to take that seriously?
If there is a price increase, then it should have a steering effect: Either you want more regular customers - then you spare them and raise the prices for occasional drivers. Or the other way around. This time everyone is lumped together - there is no apparent accentuation. There is sheer panic to somehow close a financing gap of 30 million euros. Even subscription customers who have remained loyal to the S-Bahn even in Corona times will not be spared from a 3.7 percent price increase.
Incidentally, the increase could have been averted if the Free State had increased its subsidies for local public transport. Or if the city and rural districts proceed more creatively and transfer municipal parking fees to the MVV for a specific purpose. Real acts are omitted, but the actors are strong in declarations of intent: Just on Friday, 115 cities under the leadership of Munich's mayor rider passed a paper "on doubling public transport by 2030". Who still wants to take this seriously?
(Dirk Walter)