Railway summer in Germany: future social phenomenon or fake good idea?

The Deutsche Bahn travel office at Berlin Central Station in February 2022. AP - Paul Zinken

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Summer 2022 will be rail, in Germany.

From this Wednesday, June 1, users can buy for the next three months a monthly ticket for nine euros, which will allow them to use public transport throughout the country as well as all regional trains.

An unbeatable price without precedent, which causes a huge enthusiasm.

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With our correspondent in Berlin,

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 A manager of a professional federation sums up the prevailing feeling with an unprecedented reform in Germany.

It was originally part of a package of measures adopted to reduce the consequences of energy price increases, in Germany as elsewhere.

The Greens pleaded for a proposal favoring public transport.

With a monthly ticket of nine euros in June, July and August, valid in all German cities and for all regional trains, the exceptional offer should encourage motorists to opt for the train.

"A Woodstock in public transport": comment from the pdt of the transport federation 🇩🇪 on the success of the monthly ticket at 9 Euros to take public transport and regional trains throughout the country.

7 million already sold for June.

the festival starts tomorrow.

— Pascal Thibaut (@pthibaut) May 31, 2022

As of Tuesday, seven million of these unbeatably priced tickets had already been purchased for the month of June.

The enthusiasm is enormous, as much as the possible frustrations on arrival, with a Deutsche Bahn not consulted upstream, and which cannot significantly increase its offer.

The trains are likely to be crowded, there are many delays.

On arrival, will this most popular measure have lasting effects?

The deficit that it will dig for the transport companies whose infrastructure has not first been revised upwards could even lead in a few months to what would be most counterproductive, an increase in the price of tickets .

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