9-euro ticket: A federal state wants to go its own way with the successor

Created: 08/01/2022, 16:57

By: Lisa Mayerhofer

The nine-euro ticket is only valid until the end of August;

A possible successor is being discussed.

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Transport is now proposing a purely North German successor model.

Hanover/Berlin – What's next for the popular nine-euro ticket?

The federal and state governments are still arguing about who should organize and, above all, finance a possible follow-up solution.

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Transport has now brought a North German model into play as a successor option.

Nine-euro ticket: Lower Saxony can imagine a North German model

According to the ministry, this proposal applies in the event that the federal government does not launch a Germany-wide follow-up offer for the campaign that expires at the end of August.

The federal government should enable the federal states to be able to offer a cheap, nationwide ticket after the nine-euro ticket has expired, the ministry in Hanover said at the request of the German Press Agency.

However, Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) confirmed in the "

" that he saw no scope for such a project.

“The fuel discount and the nine-euro ticket are running out.

There will be no follow-up regulation," he told the newspaper.

However, he is open to increasing the distance allowance for employees.

"Everyone benefits from this, because that applies regardless of car, train or bicycle," argued Lindner.

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Transport said: "If a nationwide ticket cannot be implemented, the five northern German federal states could alternatively set something up." The idea has not yet been explained in more detail.

Lower Saxony's Transport Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) said that a follow-up solution would only be possible with a significant increase in federal funds.

"It cannot be that the federal government initiates the ticket, leaves the implementation to the states, celebrates its success and then does not want to take responsibility for a connection solution." Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) had previously made it clear that he sees the countries to move.

Debate about the successor: the nine-euro ticket expires at the end of August

The last month of the nine-euro ticket begins on Monday, August 1st.

From June to August, bus and train drivers could and still can use local and regional transport throughout Germany for nine euros per month.

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For the SPD parliamentary group deputy in the Bundestag, Detlef Müller, the current debate with a large number of suggestions shows that the federal and state governments should now get together promptly.

"In my opinion, a special conference of transport ministers should take place in August, at which the cushioning of the increased operating costs should also be taken into account." The further procedure and the division of the financing of possible successor models for the nine-euro should be discussed -Ticket, said Müller.