Local and regional transport: debate about the successor to the 9-euro ticket - a new idea from Hanover

If the federal government does not launch a Germany-wide follow-up offer for the 9-euro ticket that expires at the end of August, Lower Saxony's Ministry of Transport could imagine a northern German model.

Local and regional transport: debate about the successor to the 9-euro ticket - a new idea from Hanover

If the federal government does not launch a Germany-wide follow-up offer for the 9-euro ticket that expires at the end of August, Lower Saxony's Ministry of Transport could imagine a northern German model. The federal government should enable the federal states to be able to offer a cheap, nationwide ticket after the 9-euro ticket has expired, the ministry in Hanover announced at the request of the German Press Agency.

"If a nationwide ticket cannot be implemented, the five northern German federal states could alternatively set something up," the ministry said. The idea has not yet become more concrete. The ministry demanded that the federal government should have a follow-up solution by the end of the year.

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 can't be that the federal government initiates the ticket, leaves the implementation to the states, lets itself be celebrated for the success and then doesn't want to take responsibility for a follow-up solution."

The last month of the 9-euro ticket begins on Monday. From June to August, consumers can use this for 9 euros each for local and regional transport throughout Germany.