The fight for a 365-euro ticket broke out in Nuremberg – the town hall recommended that the referendum be rejected

Created: 06/30/2022, 21:24

By: Nikolas Pelke

The Nuremberg City Hall wants to stop the 365-euro ticket for public transport in the Franconian metropolis.

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According to the city leaders, the 365-euro ticket violates the principles of economy.

That is why the Nuremberg city administration recommends that the council vote against the referendum on July 8th.

Nuremberg – The Nuremberg city leaders are certain: the required 365-euro ticket is too expensive.

The inexpensive annual ticket in the Franconian metropolis would cost almost 25 million euros.

The town hall therefore recommends that the councilors reject the referendum.

365-euro ticket in Nuremberg: Mayor König wanted to introduce the cheap ticket in 2020

The reason: The city administration, headed by Mayor Marcus König (CSU), classifies the citizens' request for the introduction of the 356-euro ticket as legally inadmissible.

In the town hall, the lawyers are obviously of the opinion that a 365-euro ticket contradicts the "principles of economy and economy".

"Very high costs" of almost 24 million euros would be offset by "very low transport and socio-political benefits", according to the recently published meeting proposal, which the Nuremberg city council is to vote on in a special session on July 8th.

In fact, the paper is likely to have a decisive character.

It can hardly be assumed that the black-red majority will suddenly refuse to support the boss in Nuremberg City Hall on the expensive ticket issue of all things and will not vote for rejection.

As a reminder: Only in the spring did König, as captain of the black-red town hall coalition, stop the introduction of the relatively inexpensive annual ticket for cost reasons.

Two years earlier, König had proudly announced the introduction of the 365-euro ticket as the first major city in Germany in order to avoid an imminent referendum.

In 2020 König is relying on a deal with the supporters, in 2022 König will probably resort to a legal dispute if necessary.

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Supporters of the 365-euro ticket want to exhaust all legal options

The initiators around Left City Councilor Titus Schüller have already announced that they want to exhaust all legal options.

A prominent lawyer is said to have already been found.

“The city’s legal position is completely inconclusive.

Nothing has changed in the legal framework in the last two years,” Schüller railed against the relatively surprising assessment from the town hall.

For comparison: Adults normally have to shell out a whopping 3.20 euros for a trip on public transport in the Franconian metropolis.

With the new 365-euro tariff, a day pass would only have cost one tired mark.

Most recently, the supporters have already seen themselves as on the road to victory.

After the end of the nationwide 9-euro summer ticket, the people of Nuremberg could probably have voted on the 365-euro annual ticket in autumn.

Now the ballot is threatening to burst.

Accordingly, the supporters react with 18,000 signatures in the back.

"The suspicion arises that the mayor has made a political and not a legal assessment," said Schüller, a left-wing city councilor, assessing the city administration's unequivocal decision for the special session on July 8th.