I noted out of Hamburg news this morning, a fair amount of skeptical nature over this free bus/tram ticket idea by the Berlin leadership.
NDR put a fair bit of commentary over the idea.
In the region of Hamburg, there's roughly 850 million Euro of local tram/bus tickets sold yearly....so as they point out....someone would have to cough up that money to make this all 'free'. Hint: tax-payers.
The city spokesperson even went onto discuss the internal capability of the network....trams, buses, etc....it's all built to handle X-number of passengers. The local Hamburg network is figured to transport around 770.5 million passengers every year.
I've been to Hamburg and will vouch that they have a four-star public transportation system within the city. But to suggest it could double up? Not without massive infrastructure costs.
You would likely be talking about billions to be spent over a decade to reach some stage where everything works as advertised.
Skeptical nature now attacking this Berlin idea? I would speculate that the Berlin political folks are simply trying to buy time and avoid an EU confrontation. In a way, by the EU's nature....it could make a lot of people angry over the attitude taken.
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