Overcrowding due to 9-euro ticket: police clear regional train at border control in Bavaria
Created: 07/12/2022 10:54 am
By: Tanja Kipke
The regional trains in Germany are increasingly overcrowded.
© Fabian Sommer/dpa
A journey with the regional train ended in Bavaria for some passengers before the destination.
The federal police decided to take a drastic step during a border control.
Freilassing - No seat, a lot of squeezing and bad air: This is currently commonplace on regional trains.
Anyone who is currently chugging through Germany with the 9-euro ticket should be aware of this.
For one or the other, this also causes a lot of frustration, because such a trip can sometimes become a “horror trip”.
Especially when the police throw you off the train.
Only two weeks ago there were tumultuous scenes at Munich Central Station, two passengers offered enormous resistance when a train was cleared.
Now a train has also been cleared by the Federal Police during a border check in Freilassing.
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9-euro ticket causes overcrowded trains: federal police make short work of border controls
The Federal Police partially cleared an overcrowded regional train in Freilassing, Upper Bavaria (Berchtesgadener Land district).
At the border control, they decided that some of the passengers had to get off and wait for the next connection, said a spokeswoman for the Bavarian Regiobahn on Tuesday.
The train was on its way from Salzburg to Munich on Monday afternoon.
In Freilassing, the train was so full that the federal police officers could not get through, the spokeswoman said.
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Passengers with bicycles can often not be taken along
Since the introduction of the 9-euro ticket, it has often happened that passengers with bicycles could not be taken because trains were noticeably full, said the spokeswoman.
It was the first time that passengers had to get off.
However, the high utilization will not change in the next few weeks: in addition to several German federal states, Austria is now also having summer holidays.
Bavaria will follow in August.
(tkip with dpa)
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