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Heidelberger Platz underground station in Berlin: Formal decision to follow
Photo: Sabine Brose / Frank Sorge / IMAGO
Berlin gets a time-limited 29-euro ticket for local transport.
Unlike the prominent predecessor, however, the offer contains some crucial limitations.
It should only apply from October to December and only within the city.
In addition, it is only available as a subscription and only for the entire period.
So you can't choose individual months.
The supervisory board of the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB) spoke out in favor of the introduction of the ticket on Thursday.
It is intended to be an interim solution until a nationwide local transport ticket is expected to be available in early 2023.
A formal decision should follow because of the short notice of the meeting invitation, the VBB announced.
The project was controversial until the very end.
There was a lot of criticism of the plans, especially from Brandenburg.
The proposal from the Berlin side to agree on a joint ticket valid for both countries was already off the table.
In the end, the only question was whether the Brandenburg side would also block the slimmed-down version of a ticket only for the Berlin AB area of validity.
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