After a 9-euro ticket – politicians want a new tariff system
The 9-euro ticket expires at the end of the month. The state of Berlin plans to extend the ticket there. Other states are now putting pressure on themselves.
The nationwide 9-euro ticket, which was launched at the beginning of June, is still valid until August 31. According to its own information, Großraum-Verkehr Hannover (GVH) sold more than 760,000 of these tickets. But how will things continue in Lower Saxony and the Hanover region after the end of the campaign in local public transport?
Lower Saxony’s Transport Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) wants to simplify local transport tariffs even after the 9-euro ticket. “We currently have around 50 tariff areas in Lower Saxony,” said the CDU’s top candidate in the upcoming state elections in October on the sidelines of the conference of transport ministers of the federal states of the German Press Agency. Together with Hamburg and Bremen, Althusmann thinks a nationwide 49-euro ticket is possible. And thus a planned one of the existing tariff system.
The chairman of the CDU in Hanover, Maximilian Oppelt, jumps in to help his state leader: “In times of high inflation, people need relief. The traffic light coalition at the federal level must now speed up and bring a successor solution for the 9-euro ticket,” says Oppelt t-online. “In any case, one thing is clear: tickets for public transport must be inexpensive and, above all, simple and understandable. Then they will be accepted.”
Berlin SPD factory new 9-euro ticket – and Hanover?
But while Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing spoke of “no success” at the transport ministers’ conference of the federal states, clear signals were already coming from the federal state of Berlin: Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey and SPD parliamentary group leader Raed Saleh want to give their coalition partners a report by the RBB, regardless of developments in the Federal government to make an offer: The Berlin SPD facility, therefore, an extension of the 9-euro ticket.