The nine-euro ticket should not be extended in its current form. According to a report, the federal government is planning a follow-up offer. A discounted “climate ticket” is planned – which should then also apply nationwide.
According to a media report, the federal government is considering continuing the nine-euro ticket for local transport, which is limited until the end of August, in a modified form as a climate ticket. “The attractiveness of public transport should be permanently increased with tariff measures,” quoted the Düsseldorf “Handelsblatt” from a draft for the federal government’s immediate climate protection program, which is to be decided in mid-July.
A discounted climate ticket is planned as a uniform national local transport monthly or annual ticket for regional rail passenger transport and other local transport, it said. The federal states are actually responsible for local public transport. However, the federal government is ready to “financially support” a climate ticket. Details are still being checked.
The Federal Ministry for the Environment did not want to comment on the report when asked. With the immediate climate protection program, the government wants to determine how it intends to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 in accordance with the agreed targets for CO2 emissions.
Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) is responsible for the program in cooperation with the responsible departments. Germany has committed to reducing its CO2 emissions by at least 65 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.
