Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - After the success of the 9-euro ticket for buses and trains, Hesse's Transport Minister Tarek Al-Wazir (Greens) proposed a connection solution. "A 31-euro ticket for those in need and a 69-euro ticket for everyone else. That would cost around two billion euros," he said in an interview with Hessischer Rundfunk (HR). The federal government must live up to its responsibility and make more funds available for local public transport.
In view of delays and failures, especially on the train, Al-Wazir said: "The best ticket is useless if the offer is not right." The states are ready to negotiate with the federal government on how the offer could be improved. "But as long as Christian Lindner (Federal Minister of Finance/FDP) says he will not give a euro either for the expansion of the offer or for a follow-up offer of the ticket, there can be no solution."
The 9-euro monthly ticket for buses and trains will be offered for the last time in August. It is still valid nationwide in local transport until the end of the month. The three-month campaign was intended to relieve commuters in view of high energy prices. In addition, the federal government wanted to persuade more people to switch to public transport for climate protection.
