Harald Schmidt is planning to get the 9-euro ticket – and then go to places he doesn’t want to go at all.
Advance sales of the 9-euro ticket start on Monday. With some regional transport associations you could buy the ticket a few days earlier. As already expected, the rush is great. Thousands of citizens have already bought the ticket. The server of the Deutsche Bahn website was overloaded due to the numerous requests.
Entertainer Harald Schmidt is also planning to buy the 9-euro ticket for bus and train. “I imagine it’s fantastic, the regional train is no longer the slow train that stops everywhere – that’s actually the ICE today,” said the 64-year-old on Friday evening at the celebration of the birthday of the publicist Helmut Markwort of the German press Agency in Munich.
More trains at the start of the 9-euro ticket
“I will now go to places I don’t want to go, simply because I have this 9-euro ticket.” Otherwise he does not save despite inflation. “I’m getting my pension out because inflation is eating away at my money.” So he’d rather spend the money.
The rail subsidiary DB Regio has announced that it will slightly increase its regional transport capacity for the start of the 9-euro monthly ticket in June. “DB Regio is letting over 50 additional trains roll for the expected increase in the number of passengers from June 1st,” the company announced on Monday. The vehicles could be used to offer 250 additional trips. The extra trains are to be used primarily along tourist routes.
Source: Stern
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