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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - In view of a number of Corona restrictions, significantly fewer people were traveling by bus and train in the Stuttgart region last year than usual.
The local transport association VVS counted only 240.1 million journeys in the entire calendar year, 39.1 percent fewer than in the record year 2019. For the first time in 23 years, the company announced a decrease in passenger numbers in Stuttgart on Thursday.
Correspondingly, income also fell significantly.
The VVS coordinates local public transport in Stuttgart and the districts of Böblingen, Esslingen, Ludwigsburg, Rems-Murr and Göppingen.
The reasons for the slump are obvious: Christmas markets, concerts and trade fairs have been canceled, professional football games took place without spectators and restaurants, shops, cultural and leisure facilities and many schools had to close at least temporarily.
On top of that, more people were working from home than usual in 2020 - the commute was often omitted.
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The so-called occasional traffic by customers without a fixed VVS subscription fell by 45.8 percent to 32.9 million trips.
The income from single, quadruple, day or combination tickets fell by 45.9 percent to just 86.4 million euros.
But subscription holders also used the VVS lines significantly less than in normal years;
In commuter traffic alone, journeys fell by almost a third.
The total number of subscribers also decreased, but comparatively mildly.
Total income from tickets and subscriptions, taking into account compensation payments for a tariff reform, fell by 23.6 percent to 390.7 million euros.
Politicians had recently put together another Corona aid package for local public transport in the southwest - in this context, a large part of the loss of income of the transport companies is to be compensated for by almost empty buses and trains.
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