Frankfurt/Hofheim (dpa/lhe) – In future, people in three other districts of Frankfurt will be able to be picked up by minibuses. The offer of so-called on-demand shuttles will be extended to Kalbach-Riedberg, Frankfurter Berg and Berkersheim on October 11th, the local transport company Frankfurt traffiQ and the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) based in Hofheim announced on Thursday. In the future, the electric buses will run around the clock on weekends, currently they run daily from five in the morning to one at night.
The project called “Knut” started on October 4, 2021 in the northern districts of Bonames, Harheim, Nieder-Erlenbach and Nieder-Eschbach. If you need one of the three buses, you can call them to one of around 600 bus stops by phone or with an app. The minibuses are part of the local public transport system, but passengers have to pay a surcharge on the ticket. If there are other travel requests on the route, more passengers get on.
However, the offer is not only available in Hesse’s largest city, but in several municipalities in the Rhine-Main area – by the end of the year there should be a total of nine. The district of Offenbach started in the summer of 2019.