The 1.5 billion euros promised by the federal government would not be enough, says Finance Minister Füracker and warns of incalculable follow-up costs. The Greens criticize the government’s blockade.
The Bavarian state government continues to shoot against a planned successor model for the nine-euro ticket. Finance Minister Albert Füracker (CSU) warned of “incalculable follow-up costs” for the Free State. “The federal government has announced a fixed amount of 1.5 billion euros that can be planned for itself,” he said Süddeutsche Zeitung, “the countries would have to add the rest” – in an unforeseeable amount. At the same time, however, one is waiting for regionalization funds for rail transport promised by the federal government. “There’s nothing coming,” said Füracker.
The entire third relief package, which, according to the rough estimate, will cost Bavaria far more than three billion euros, was decided by the federal government on its own. It was “simply bad style, but unfortunately it seems to be becoming a habit,” Füracker complained. Transport Minister Christian Bernreiter (CSU), meanwhile, spoke on Bayerischer Rundfunk on Wednesday of a “big city discussion” about the public transport ticket, “in a way we have a free beer mentality here”. Rural areas go “completely empty-handed with this story”.
In the third relief package, the federal government wants to provide 1.5 billion euros for a local transport ticket that is valid nationwide. The condition is the participation of the federal states. The ticket price for passengers could be around 49 euros. The day before, after the cabinet, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) described the traffic light’s approach as a “Prussian-centralist approach”. Meanwhile, the Greens in the state parliament warned of a blockade: “A 49-euro ticket for all of Germany, just not in Bavaria? It must not come to that,” said MP Markus Büchler. Public transport is an issue for the whole country, even outside of the big cities.