Companies propose a 69-euro ticket: Bavaria's Minister of Transport rejects the proposal

Created: 07/17/2022, 06:21

By: Dirk Walter

Christian Bernreiter speaks during a press conference.

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According to transport companies such as MVV, a 69-euro ticket could be a suitable successor to the 9-euro ticket.

Bavaria's Transport Minister Bernreiter (CSU) sees it differently.

Munich/Berlin – The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) has come out in favor of a permanent 69-euro ticket as the successor to the 9-euro ticket.

The ticket is to be valid nationwide for local public transport.

"The industry is able to offer such a climate ticket from September 1st," explained VDV Managing Director Oliver Wolff.

"For this, however, we would need the corresponding order from politicians very quickly."

Wolff put the costs for such an offer at around two billion euros a year.

For comparison: the 9-euro ticket costs around 2.5 billion euros in the three months of June, July and August.

For this year, the costs for a 9-euro follow-up ticket could still be financed through the rescue package for transport companies negotiated with politicians, said Wolff.

“A new regulation is then needed for the new year.”

69-euro ticket: MVV boss also supports the proposal

MVV boss Bernd Rosenbusch welcomed the move.

It should be discussed whether a nationwide valid 69-euro ticket for regional and local transport in 2nd class should only be available as a subscription in order to achieve a steering effect.

This is the only way to persuade some drivers to switch to buses, trams or trains over the long term.

Rosenbusch said that the fact that the MVV could not simply return to the usual tariffs after the end of the 9-euro ticket was undisputed.

The Federal Ministry of Transport sees it that way too.

Politicians of the "traffic light" signal open-mindedness, such as the deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group, Detlef Müller.

"Whether a connection ticket then costs 39, 49 or 69 euros is secondary," he told the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland".

The Greens boss Ricarda Lang told the "FAZ": "We will discuss the model in the coalition, but one thing is clear: it needs a follow-up regulation that, as proposed by the Federal Minister of Transport, applies as uniformly as possible nationwide and is cheap, i.e. also socially."

Bavaria's transport minister against a cheap connection ticket

Müller suggested developing a proposal by the transport ministers' conference in the fall.

"I think it would be good if the federal and state governments could agree on a permanent model in which the states participate in a similar way to the Corona rescue package."

That will not be easy.

Bavaria's Minister of Transport Christian Bernreiter (CSU) told our newspaper that there didn't have to be a cheap connection ticket.

"We don't need a competition to outbid the ticket prices, we need investments in the offer." Money that was "burned" over the summer for the 9-euro ticket is missing for the expansion.

The federal government must increase the regionalization funds.

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