Franziska Giffey (SPD), Governing Mayor of Berlin Photo: picture alliance/dpa
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Berlin’s Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) hopes that after the agreement between the federal and state governments on a nationwide valid 49-euro ticket, there will be more solutions.
With the Germany ticket that has been decided, you have to look at the entire tariff structure in the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region, she said on Friday on RBB Inforadio. She would like a possibility “for the inner city area AB” for no more than one euro a day. She also sees a future for the current 29-euro ticket in Berlin beyond the spring.
The 29-euro ticket is well received in the city. In the area, other solutions may be necessary, said Giffey: “We need a perspective.”
In the TV show “RTL Direkt”, the SPD politician said after the consultations on Thursday evening that she did not expect the originally planned introduction of the ticket in April 2023. “It looks like it will probably be May,” said Giffey . That now depends on the negotiations. “I really hope it works,” she added.
According to the decision, the federal and state governments want to introduce the so-called Deutschlandticket for local public transport “as soon as possible in 2023”.
The heads of government of the federal states, together with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), agreed on the long-controversial cost distribution that the federal and state governments would each bear half of any additional costs for companies next year. It had already been agreed that the federal and state governments would each provide 1.5 billion euros per year for the ticket.