The district of Munich will probably reimburse residents of MVV tariff zones 1 and 2 for part of the cost of their annual tickets in 2022 and 2023 as well. The mobility committee recommended this to the district council on Monday with a clear majority. The committee even went beyond a request by the ÖDP group, which initially only applied for cost coverage for the year 2022.
Specifically, this means that the residents of those 14 municipalities that do not belong to the central M-Zone after the tariff reform of December 2019, the higher price they therefore pay for their Isar-Card, Isar-Card 9 a.m., Isar-Card 65 , Isar-Card Job or have paid the training tariff, can be returned afterwards from the district upon request.
The measure does not yet have the steering effect “that we want,” said District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU). This is mainly due to the lower demand in local public transport due to the corona pandemic. By July 15 of this year, only 3,104 people had taken advantage of the offer, which was originally assumed to be 12,000. The applications received so far would cost the district a good 750,000 euros; the budget had been set at 5.7 million. The administration assumes that a maximum of 1.5 million euros will be required for the current calendar year.
Nevertheless, the majority in the committee was in favor of extending the funding by two years, but now only three million euros per budget year are set for this. Free voter district councilor Günter Heyland warned that “this financing should not become a matter of course”. District Administrator Göbel replied that he was still hoping for a flat rate, so at some point every citizen would have to pay the same contribution for the MVV. In addition to Thomas Loderer (CSU), the Greens voted against the request. “First, the structure of the public transport must be improved,” said Markus Büchler, who is also a transport expert for the Greens in the state parliament. Only then would such subsidies make sense.