The SPD in the Bundestag calls for quick clarifications on possible follow-up offers for the 9-euro tickets in local transport, which are still valid until the end of August.
The current debate with a large number of suggestions and demands shows that the federal and state governments should now get together promptly, said SPD parliamentary group deputy Detlef Müller of the German Press Agency. "From my point of view, a special conference of transport ministers should take place in August, at which the cushioning of the increased operating costs should also be taken into account."
To be discussed is the further procedure and the distribution of the financing of possible successor models for the 9-euro ticket, said Müller. Further steps in the urgently needed expansion of services will then be discussed at the regular conference of transport ministers in October.
End of the 9 euro ticket
This Monday begins the last month of the 9-euro tickets launched in June, which enable one-month trips in local public transport buses and trains throughout Germany.
A debate about connection offers has already broken out in order to further relieve passengers of the high energy costs and to give them incentives to switch to local transport. There are suggestions for a 365-euro annual ticket and monthly tickets for 29 or 69 euros.
Federal Minister of Transport Volker Wissing (FDP) had made it clear that he saw it as the federal states' turn - the state side insisted on further financial responsibility of the federal government.
