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> This is first and foremost a subsidy scheme to give public transit providers some more money - many people will buy the 9 euro ticket which before did not buy
by foepys 4y ago
> This is first and foremost a subsidy scheme to give public transit providers some more money - many people will buy the 9 euro ticket which before did not buy monthly tickets - and for each such ticket, the state will give the public transit provider the difference to a full month ticket, up to 200 Euros.
Do you have a source for that? Considering that the federal government considers 2.5 billion
Euro enough to cover the costs, this sounds false. As far as I'm informed the transport authorities will just get their current costs covered.
- DocTomoe 4y agoMy source is from an internal (FDP) party newsletter I've read when the idea first was announced. I seem to have since deleted it... But to put that into context: with 2.5 billion Euros, you could finance 12.5 million such 200-euro-subsidies, or a ticket for three months for about 5% of the population, which I think is not too pessimistic - I'd wager that's about twice the number of people who have a net-wide ticket for their respective ÖPNV-Verbund today. The Länder of course consider that money too little and are trying to get more cash assigned, though.