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This is how Hamburg is planning for the 49-euro ticket

The Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) will start advance sales for the 49-euro ticket on April 3rd.

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This is how Hamburg is planning for the 49-euro ticket

The Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) will start advance sales for the 49-euro ticket on April 3rd. Interested parties can then purchase the Germany ticket, which is valid nationwide, via the HVV switch app, as the HVV announced on Thursday. Customers without a smartphone will be provided with a chip card. For existing customers, the HVV subscription will automatically be reduced to 49 euros from May 1st. People entitled to the social discount of the city of Hamburg continued to receive it. The Germany ticket will then be correspondingly cheaper.

Hamburg's Transport Senator Anjes Tjarks has meanwhile welcomed the decision of the state transport ministers on the 49-euro ticket for students. "Hamburg welcomes and supports the way of enabling students to have sustainable mobility with a discounted nationwide solidarity ticket," said the Greens politician on Thursday. According to the decision made by the heads of department in Aachen, an “upgrade solution” should initially be offered for the introduction of the ticket on May 1st.

This means that students only have to pay the difference up to the price of 49 euros for the Germany ticket, based on the amount of their semester ticket. A work process has been agreed for the permanent and nationwide uniform inclusion of tickets for students in the 49-euro ticket.

Tjarks said that if there is no nationally valid and uniform solidarity ticket by the winter semester, "students can upgrade their previous semester ticket to a Germany ticket with a 10 percent discount". With the Hamburg semester ticket they could then use local transport nationwide for 44.10 euros per month.

The Deutschlandticket is scheduled to start on May 1st with an introductory price of 49 euros per month and will follow on from the popular 9-euro ticket from summer 2022. A digitally bookable, monthly subscription is planned, which is valid nationwide for local transport. The Bundestag has already passed the financing law, and the Bundesrat still has to approve it on March 31st. According to this, the federal government is providing 1.5 billion euros from 2023 to 2025 to compensate for half of the loss of income from transport providers. The federal states should pay for the other half.

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