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Deutsche Bahn: Top manager calls for a mask requirement in local transport until spring

2021-10-31T09:45:36.021Z


Even if the pandemic situation expires, the mask requirement should remain on public transport - until Easter, says rail manager Jörg Sandvoss. 


Even if the pandemic situation expires, the mask requirement should remain on public transport - until Easter, says rail manager Jörg Sandvoss. 

Frankfurt / Main - The head of the DB Regio, Jörg Sandvoss, hopes that mask regulations in local public transport will continue to exist in the winter season.

"The masks are worn consistently," he told the German Press Agency at a local public transport industry meeting in Frankfurt am Main.

In the summer of 2020, there was an even bigger problem with mask refusers in large cities, said the Bahn * manager.

"That is gone.

The acceptance of the masks is extremely high.

That is why it is important for us, if the pandemic situation comes to an end, that there are at least regulations that we maintain the mask requirement in public transport in the winter season until Easter. "At the moment, the mask" definitely contributes to the feeling of security ".

Rail: Pre-Corona level within reach

Sandvoss sees the return of confidence in being able to use local public transport despite the ongoing pandemic. "We are now at a level of 70, sometimes 80 percent of the pre-Corona * time." In rural areas it is a little less, while in cities there are sometimes more than 80 percent of the passenger volume. “We have invested a lot in additional hygiene and safety,” he emphasized.

But the return of passengers is not only reflected in the number of commuters.

"On the weekends we are almost back to the level of before Corona." In local traffic, significantly more excursion and leisure traffic is recorded.

"During Corona, people realized: It is beautiful in the Odenwald, on the Mecklenburg Lake District and in the Bavarian Forest," said Sandvoss.

"What we are still missing at the moment are the passengers to the football games, Christmas markets, Oktoberfest - for us these are always major battle days, on which everything rolls that is there."

(Dpa) * Merkur.de is part of IPPEN.MEDIA .

Source: merkur

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