Senator Giffey regarding the 29-Euro-Ticket: "Keeping promises"

Berlin's Senator for Economic Affairs, Franziska Giffey, has not yet written off the 29-euro ticket despite planned billion-euro savings in the state budget - and insists on reliability in politics.

"I fundamentally believe that promises should be kept," said the SPD politician in an interview with the "Berliner Morgenpost" (online).

Both the SPD and the CDU had promised the 29-euro ticket, which was only introduced on July 1, during the election campaign and agreed upon it in the coalition agreement.

"That was at a time marked by great crises, which brought many people to the brink, and in which many people wished for relief," said Giffey. "We have fulfilled the promise and see that currently 206,000 people are taking advantage of this ticket."

Giffey expects further ticket sales after the holidays

She assumes that after the summer holidays, further ticket sales will occur, so that by the end of the year there might be 300,000 users.

"That is a magnitude that cannot be easily dismissed."

There are many people for whom the 29-euro ticket is a good offer, also because some do not need the 49-euro ticket for public transport throughout Germany or find it too expensive, according to Giffey.

"Nevertheless, we also said that the ticket must be evaluated after one year. How many were new customers, which groups of customers were they? And then we have to jointly consider whether and for which target groups the ticket can continue to be offered."