Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – Baden-Württemberg’s Transport Minister Winfried Hermann (Greens) sees the federal government as having a duty to finance a follow-up regulation for the 9-euro ticket. Hermann said on Friday in Stuttgart after a video call from the transport ministers that the heads of department of the federal states agreed that solid basic financing of public transport is much more important than a nationwide, cheap ticket offer.
The transport ministers of the federal states called on the federal government to present a viable and sustainable proposal for the successor regulations to the 9-euro ticket “promptly”. This emerges from a resolution paper of the special conference of transport ministers. The decision was before the German Press Agency. The 9-euro ticket expires at the end of August.
The decision states that the conference of transport ministers is ready, as part of the expansion and modernization pact and when securing the necessary overall financing to ensure that public transport continues to be attractive and efficient in 2022 and 2023, about a successor regulation after the 9-euro ticket expires to negotiate with the federal government. “The conference of transport ministers expects the federal government to present a viable and sustainable proposal in a timely manner and to commit to its full responsibility for financing and to secure it permanently.”
Hermann went on to say that the conference of transport ministers had decided unanimously and with great clarity that, in view of the worsening climate crisis, local public transport urgently needed to be expanded. “Therefore, the increase in regionalization funds agreed by the traffic light coalition must come this year and in the years to come.” This is all the more necessary because energy prices have risen drastically and are a heavy burden on transport companies.
