The mayors of eastern German cities see the Germany ticket from 2024 before the end. The reason is enormous additional costs for public transport in the coming years, for which the federal government has so far refused to provide financial compensation, Leipzig's mayor Burkhard Jung (SPD) said on Tuesday. In his city alone, the subsidy requirement for wages, vehicles and infrastructure, for example, will double from about 100 million euros now to 2030. The cities are also pressing for financial changes in the accommodation and care of refugees. Jung: "We finally need a permanent system of financing that dynamically adapts to the refugee numbers and gives us planning security."
In view of the current financial situation and ever new tasks, the mayors see their cities falling further and further behind in terms of investment. They pointed to studies that put this backlog, as well as the need for investment in the maintenance and expansion of railways and roads, for example, at several hundred billion euros over the next few years.
