Cologne - The fare on the regional Rhine-Sieg (VRS) - and thus also of the KVB - are expected to rise next year. The parties in the Verbandsversammlung and transport operators to fight hard on the amount of the award.
If it were up to the 31 carriers in the VRS, the tariffs would be for buses and trains right around 4.5 or attracting an average of five percent. A single ticket to the KVB could thus be approximately equal to ten cents more expensive. The reason is the price premium traditionally with the increased costs of personnel and energy.
But as Gerhard Zorn, SPD head explodes in Zweckverband, the collar: "Nearly five percent is too high and not to do with us." The politician points out that energy costs accounted for at most 15 percent of the total cost of a carrier.
The SPD would accept at most 2.9 percent - as in Frankfurt -. Individual tickets will not have to be expensive. Zorn: "For a pay increase is a three-quarters majority needed: no agreement, no resolution, no increase!"
CDU town councilor and deputy Party chief of Karsten's Möring VRS Zweckverband Assembly. He also believes the increase in the VRS call company, to be inappropriate, but said: "The behavior of the SPD is equally dubious. 2.9 percent are too little. I expect that we will work out a compromise proposal. "
On 25 September is meeting Verbandsversammlung. An agreement will be problematic. Carriers, according to Zorn already legally examine whether they can attract without the politicians prices. That would effectively mean the end for the Transport Authority.
The KVB wanted to make, at the collective poker in the VRS and opinion. Only one thing is certain: It will be expensive ...
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