The new Germany 9-euro train ticket saved 1.8 million tons of CO2.
This ticket must disappear this Wednesday at midnight but calls for its extension are multiplying.
The popular 9-euro monthly ticket on public transport, which has been tested in Germany since June, has saved tons of CO2 emissions. According to the calculations of the German public transport association VDV, this ticket, which allows national use of regional and local trains, subways, trams and buses, avoided emitting this amount of 1.8 million tons of CO2 because many travelers left their cars in the garage.
Germany 9-euro train ticket
In total, about 52 million tickets have been sold and ten million people who already had a monthly subscription have also benefited, according to the VDV. Among these users of the 9-euro ticket, which will disappear at midnight on Wednesday, 10% indicated that they had given up at least one trip a week usually made by car, according to the association, which has conducted a study since June at the rate of 6,000 people interviewed per week. The inhabitants of rural areas have also benefited little from it, due to the lack of an adequate transport offer.
This experimental measure decided by the coalition government was intended to compensate for the impact on consumers of the surge in energy prices, in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
Germany 9-euro train ticket scheme
Building on the success of this scheme, the transport ministers of the regions of Germany called on Friday on the coalition government of the Social Democratic Chancellor (SPD) Olaf Scholz to propose a measure following the 9 euro ticket, funded by the state. But this appeal, relayed among the population, is met with refusal on budgetary issues from the Ministries of Transport and Finance in Berlin, both held by the Liberals (FDP).
The SPD parliamentary group, for its part, is proposing a 49-euro ticket valid throughout the country for local transport, sharing the bill equally between the federal government and those in the regions, according to the popular daily Bild. The city-state of Berlin, also led by the SPD, wants to extend the ticket to 9 euros until the end of the year, according to local radio RBB.
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