A cheap ticket for everyone instead of expensive company cars for a few: NRW Transport Minister Oliver Krischer wants buses and trains to remain inexpensive in the long term. To this end, he takes on Finance Minister Christian Lindner.
Interviewed by
Christian Wernicke, Dusseldorf
Oliver Krischer has only been Minister for the Environment and Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia for seven weeks. The green wanted to familiarize himself with it, but he is already right in the middle of it: lignite protests, low water in the Rhine. And now the quarrel over the nine-euro ticket. Krischer likes to talk plainly about this – and not just as a representative of his state.