STORY: The federal and state governments have agreed on a successor to the 9-euro ticket. The same thing has really grown on people, said Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing on Thursday in Bremerhaven after two days of consultations. “The conference of transport ministers has agreed to introduce the ticket for 49 euros, once all the other questions that still need to be clarified in financial terms have of course been clarified. And the ticket should be a subscription ticket, roughly the way it is from other digital services. You subscribe and you can cancel at any time, so you don’t have to keep buying new ones, but it’s automatically renewed if you don’t get off.” Questions about the financing of the offer remained unresolved. According to Wissing, this would not have been possible without the finance ministers and prime ministers of the federal states. Bremen’s mobility senator Maike Schaefer said: “The federal and state governments support the introduction of the ticket. The federal government will provide 1.5 billion annually from 2023. The states are also willing to co-finance. The states have emphasized this again and again But she reaffirmed it again today in her decision. The aim of the federal government is funding by the states in the same amount. And it is also clear to the states that they are also willing to co-finance provided they come to an agreement on the regionalization funds.” There was a divided response from those suspected to be affected. “That the ticket will be cheaper, definitely, but 49 euros is far too expensive in my opinion. So 29 euros, yes, gladly – but 49 euros will probably be for most people who want and need to use the ticket, for mine I think is too expensive.” “The 9-euro ticket itself wasn’t a bad idea. 49 euros, you say? I don’t think that’s a bad idea. The only problem was that it was pretty crowded, right now, if you look at the situation, how things are developing now with Corona, that it gets extremely crowded on the trains, depending on the demand. But I didn’t think it was bad in itself.” “So basically the 9-euro ticket was a great thing, especially for people who are not so well positioned. And 49 euros, I think, is still okay. So many people will be able to afford it again. And to travel the Federal Republic with it is a great thing. And I think we will We have to move away from this individual mobility towards mobility for society as a whole. And we can do that with it.” According to Wissing, the 49-euro ticket, which is valid nationwide, should come as soon as possible. He named January 1 of the coming year as the desired goal.