“I believe that this would not be a social measure and not charged to also those a lot of, the use of the public TRANSPORT may not like cyclists and pedestrians,” he said on Friday in the RBB”Abendschau”. Berlin need money for public TRANSPORT to expand. “But a compulsory measure for those who don’t use the public TRANSPORT, will probably be with us so not to implement.” The red-red-green coalition government, checks according to the three groups with a feasibility study, three alternative models for a more public TRANSPORT-source of funding: a contribution of property owners, commercial businesses and accommodation establishments to pay; a City toll as a fee for the Use of the roads in the city centre, and a General public TRANSPORT-contribution from all citizens of Berlin.
so Far, the public TRANSPORT is financed through the sale of tickets and tax receipts. The study, which had given the Senate transport administration in order to be published in the coming weeks. The public transport is a goal, the red-Red-Green, among other things, in the mobility law.
The Berlin-based Green-group leader Antje Kapek had defended the ideas of the Senate for a further source of Finance on Thursday in the RBB”abendschau”. “The truth is: I need money to expand,” said Kapek. As a cyclist, you with Finance even highways, as a pedestrian on the cycle path – it is a question of justice that all co-financed by the public TRANSPORT Expansion.
Mueller said instead, for a 365-Euro-Ticket. Such a subscription is for users to be attractive, said the SPD land Chairman. “You know, for a Euro the day I can be mobile.” At the same time, the offer enabling the Expansion of the public TRANSPORT.
In January, the SPD group had adopted a Resolution in which it supported the idea of a 365-Euro-year eco-tickets for public TRANSPORT in Berlin. Müller had brought a possible funding by the Federal government into the conversation. If a 365-Euro-Ticket means that significantly more people use the public TRANSPORT, is considered to be controversial.
dpa
