The federal and state transport ministers have agreed on the details of a future 49-euro ticket, but left financial questions open. The federal states still want more money from the federal government for local transport. Now it's the prime ministers' conference again.
The federal states are willing to co-finance a 49-euro ticket for local transport as a successor to the 9-euro ticket. That's what Bremen's Senator for Transport, Maike Schaefer, said when she chaired the Conference of Transport Ministers in Bremerhaven. However, the federal states still generally want more money from the federal government to finance local transport, this is about so-called regionalization funds. The best ticket is useless if there is no bus. According to Schäfer, the ticket should be paperless, valid throughout Germany and introduced "as quickly as possible". The package will also be evaluated after two years.
The Prime Ministers' Conference (MPK) shot the ball in the direction of Transport Ministers, who have now delivered, said Schaefer. The MPK must now sink the "penalty". The Prime Ministers have not yet been able to agree on financial issues with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing welcomed the basic agreement with the federal states on the design of a successor model for the 9-euro ticket. One had "taken a decisive step forward," said the FDP politician after a joint conference. The technical and content-related questions have now been clarified so that preparations for implementation can begin.
According to Wissing, an agreement on the remaining open questions of financing local transport as a whole and dealing with increased energy costs was quite conceivable, but they are not yet close enough to clarify this without the finance ministers and the prime ministers. The decision paper states that the federal government will provide 1.5 billion euros per year for a 49-euro ticket from 2023.
