Public transport flat rate
Nationwide validity? That was once. First district no longer accepts Deutschlandticket on buses
Train station in Stendal. With the Deutschlandticket you will soon only be able to get back and forth by train.
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The financing of the Deutschlandticket for the coming year has just been secured. Now a district is leaving the nationwide offer and no longer wants to accept the flat rate ticket on its buses.
It’s so simple: travel all over the country by bus and train and no longer have to worry about the right ticket. The uncomplicated, nationwide validity is one of the central arguments for this Deutschlandticket – but now the first district is pulling out and announcing that it will no longer accept the public transport flat rate on its buses. The nationwide validity is now over; we are once again taking a step towards a patchwork of tariffs.
Germany ticket is no longer valid on buses in the Stendal district
In the Stendal district (Saxony-Anhalt), according to media reports, the ticket will no longer be recognized on city and regional buses from January 1, 2024. The district council decided this by a majority this week. The reason is that the district with its around 110,000 residents would have to subsidize the Deutschlandticket with around 120,000 euros.
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Money that the district doesn’t want to spend on it. “On the one hand, we are doing a lot of budget consolidation. And on the other hand, the Germany Ticket cannot be used by our citizens as part of our public bus transport. That is disproportionate,” the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk quoted the chairwoman of the German Broadcasting Corporation as saying District council, Annegret Schwarz (CDU). In plain language: The coffers are empty and not enough people in the region take the bus.
However, the Deutschlandticket remains valid on regional trains in the Stendal district. The federal state is responsible for rail transport, not the district.
Sources: Resolution proposal for the district of Stendal, Central German Radio