Future of the Germany ticket: It will be much more expensive

Train travel will cost more money in the future. The 13 million users of the Germany ticket have to prepare for this. The traffic politicians of Union and SPD Have that during the ongoing coalition negotiations agreed. The CSU-MP Ulrich Lange generally became known as an uncomplicated, Germany -wide ticket, but there are significant changes in financing. This means « that this must be set up solidly and with a much stronger participation of the users, » said Lange to our editorial team.

The inexpensive subscription card for 58 euros per month is subsidized annually with three billion euros from the federal and state governments. Both sides argue about the proportion that you have to apply. « It is not a condition if the federal and state governments have to argue about their participation every month. Everyone involved needs planning security, » said Lange. According to the will of the negotiators, the train drivers get a transition period. Only from 2027 should they have to pay noticeably more. The Germany ticket started in mid -2023 at a price of 49 euros per month, since The first January will be 58 euros due.

Germany ticket only for students and pensioners?

The Allianz Pro Schiene – an association of railway companies and unions – expects the Germany ticket to be gradually converted into a social ticket. That means that the subsidized monthly menu can only receive pupils, students, pensioners and people with a small wallet. « If the prices, socially acceptable ‘are to be increased from 2027, this can only mean that the long-demanded social ticket will be introduced, » said Allianz-Pro-Schiene boss Dirk Flege of our editorial team.

The negotiators of the CDU/CSU and SPD have also agreed in their traffic group that the railway group will not be smashed, as the Union was up to. This remains the track network, train stations and the rolling units under the group’s roof. According to the compromise, the divisions are more unmapped. « It is repeatedly confirmed that the railway is no longer allowed to get money without reforms. After all, we can no longer accept that the funds in the group sink, but are not targeted for the rail infrastructure, » said traffic expert Lange.

The background: by 2030, several dozen heavily loaded corridors of the track network are to be overhauled in general, which will devour billions. Among other things, the money is to come from the special fund infrastructure that the parliament decided last week.

The air for the head of the railway becomes thinner

In the intermediate paper of the working group, it also says that « personnel, legal, legal as well as organizational measures » must be taken for the unbundling. In Berlin, this was seen as an attack on rail chief Richard Lutz, the resignation of which after the Bahn chaos during the European Football Championship had demanded several times last year. The unification of the traffic politicians is subject to the SPD and Union’s heads, the next week will decide on each individual policy area.

This Thursday, the rail company will present his annual report for 2024. It is already leaked that the bottom line is that red numbers are once again. The lack of punctuality is still a big problem. According to the company, every third long -distance train came too late in February. A renovation program is to make the railway profitable by 2027. In order to achieve this goal, 30,000 jobs are reduced socially. Personnel is reduced, especially in management and administration.