BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – Transport Minister Volker Wissing does not see the federal government as responsible for a follow-up offer for the 9-euro ticket. “I can’t even design a ticket, the federal states have to do it,” said the FDP politician on Wednesday in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”. When he suggested the ticket, the countries criticized it with outrage. “And now everyone is very enthusiastic and wants to have it permanently. Now we have to see how the countries want to finance it.”
The 9-euro ticket is valid throughout Germany for local transport and is limited up to and including August. Wissing recently announced that a follow-up offer could be developed by the end of the year or early 2023. Among other things, there are suggestions for a 365-euro annual ticket or a 69-euro monthly ticket. Wissing had emphasized several times that the design of local public transport was a matter for the state./htz/DP/men