The 9-euro ticket is history – and everyone wants a successor. Nationwide, however, this will not come before the turn of the year. Berlin is now presenting its own ticket. It should look like that.
Berlin gets a time-limited 29-euro ticket for local transport. It should only be valid within the city from October to December and only be available as a subscription. It cannot be purchased for individual months. The supervisory board of the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB) spoke out in favor of this. A formal decision should follow because of the short notice of the meeting invitation, the VBB announced.
The ticket is expected to be issued from October 1st as a subscription for the Berlin AB fare sub-area and will be valid until December 31st, 2022. It is intended to be an interim solution until a nationwide local transport ticket is expected to be available in early 2023.
Brandenburg criticizes the plans
The project was controversial until the very end. There was a lot of criticism of the plans, especially from Brandenburg. The proposal from the Berlin side to agree on a joint, transnational ticket was already off the table. In the end, the only question was whether the Brandenburg side would also block the slimmed-down version of a ticket only for the Berlin AB area of validity.
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Source: Stern
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