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9-euro ticket successor fixed: Wissing's model from 2023 causes country criticism: "come to potte"

2022-09-20T03:16:37.201Z


9-euro ticket successor fixed: Wissing's model from 2023 causes country criticism: "come to potte" Created: 09/20/2022, 05:10 By: Andreas Schmid Currently working on a successor model for the 9-euro ticket: Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP, left) and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). © Christophe Gateau/dpa Well then: The traffic light is planning a successor to the 9-euro ticket. However, i


9-euro ticket successor fixed: Wissing's model from 2023 causes country criticism: "come to potte"

Created: 09/20/2022, 05:10

By: Andreas Schmid

Currently working on a successor model for the 9-euro ticket: Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP, left) and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).

© Christophe Gateau/dpa

Well then: The traffic light is planning a successor to the 9-euro ticket.

However, it will take until 2023 for the discounted offer to become a reality.

Berlin - According to Olaf Scholz, the 9-euro ticket was "one of the best ideas we've ever had".

For three months, people in Germany were able to board the bus and train for nine euros a month.

"A great thing," as the chancellor said.

The discounted offer for regional transport has been a thing of the past since August 31.

For cost reasons, the federal government did not extend the 9-euro ticket.

However, the Ministry of Transport has now presented a successor model.

"There will be a successor to the 9-euro ticket," said FDP Transport Minister Volker Wissing on Monday after a special transport ministers' conference.

From January 1st, people should be able to travel at reduced prices again.

However, there is not too much euphoria.

Once again, the federal and state governments are fighting over funding.

There is criticism of the estimated price of 49 euros per month.

9-euro ticket successor: Wissing's "fair offer" to the federal states

The price of the 9-euro ticket is so cheap "that everyone suspects that we can't keep it up in the long run," said Scholz back in September.

Wissing made a similar statement at the time.

The Federal Minister of Transport has now made an advance payment of 1.5 billion euros.

At the beginning of September, the coalition committee announced that it would contribute 1.5 billion euros a year to a successor model for the 9-euro ticket - if the federal states themselves contribute at least the same amount to the financing.

But do they?

Wissing was relaxed and spoke of a "fair offer".

Public transport: What the federal government takes over

The federal government will pay the federal states almost 9.5 billion euros in regionalization funds for public transport this year.

In the coming year it should be 9.75 billion euros, and then gradually more in the following years until the total of 11.05 billion euros is reached in 2030.

The money for a follow-up ticket and the additional funds required by the countries would come on top of that.

Dispute about the 9-euro ticket successor: “Have to come to fruition relatively quickly”

Bremen's Minister of Transport Maike Schaefer (Greens) said that all states are ready to do this - but this is linked to an increase in the regionalization funds that the federal government transfers to the states annually for local public transport.

The federal states are demanding an additional 1.65 billion euros for this and next year.

They justify this with the consequences of the Corona crisis and the current burdens from high energy prices.

A working group should find a solution by mid-October.

According to Schaefer, the members of the working group must be equipped with decision-making powers, "i.e. ministers or state secretaries, so that we can get things done relatively quickly".

Bremen's green senator Maike Schaefer is currently chairwoman of the conference of transport ministers.

It carries the interests of the state transport ministries to the federal department.

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A specific price for the ticket has not yet been decided.

In all probability, the local transport ticket will cost 49 euros.

That is the goal of the federal states, emphasized Bremen Senator Schaefer.

The Greens recently developed a concept for cheap local transport.

In the future there will be two new monthly tickets: a regional ticket for 29 euros and a federal ticket for 49 euros.

The Association of German Transport Companies proposes a nationwide ticket for 69 euros.

According to the parliamentary director of the FDP, Stephan Thomae, the 9-euro ticket has pushed the “long-neglected public transport” to its limits and revealed deficits.

Now the federal states are also responsible, says Thomae

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"Otherwise, the citizens of the country would have to use their tax money to help finance local public transport in the metropolitan areas, even though they cannot use it and are still dependent on the car."

The traffic light partners from the SPD and the Greens have meanwhile proposed an excess profit tax for financing.

SPD leader Lars Klingbeil increased the pressure on the FDP with this demand at the beginning of September.

However, the Liberals still clearly reject such a model.

Stephan Thomae is Parliamentary Secretary of the FDP.

In the Bundestag elections, the native of Kempten was elected to the Bundestag via the Bavarian state list.

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The Federal Consumer Association (vzbv) criticized the fact that it had still not been possible to agree on a successor model that would provide relief and protect the climate.

The vzbv demands a nationwide 29-euro ticket - with discounts for people on low incomes.

At the same time, politicians must “take more money for a better infrastructure and more offers”.

Greenpeace argued similarly: The federal government is forcing the states to choose between a climate ticket and the necessary expansion of buses and trains, while the traffic turnaround needs both, the environmental protection organization explained.

It advertises a 365-euro annual ticket.

(as/AFP)

Source: merkur

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