So there are enough people who have to drive long distances to their workplace and that in areas where there is no reasonable public transport between home and work. They go to work to afford the car they have to drive to work. Of course, you can look for a job nearby. The only question is whether it is fulfilling. The problem is also that wages are lower in more sparsely populated areas. Of course, this balances out at first. However, one feels the 500 euros less in the month at the end again with his pension. I wouldn't necessarily describe them as predominantly wealthy, because a 9 euro ticket is of absolutely no use to them. Probably more the people who live in or around cities. Or people who make their trips with it.
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@MCKaden I agree with you when you say that there are certainly some people who could use the fuel discount. But here, too, it would be more than symbolic politics to connect the periphery to the local transport network. However, if we look at the reasons why this fails, we find its root in the 90s to 2000s, where the railroads (state-owned!!!) privatized massive numbers of stations, shut them down and made them irreversibly unattractive for any reconnection. So the mistakes were not made today, they are the result of many years of political misjudgement. And any policy today is based on their misjudgement and grievances. Symbolically for it now again (after Abfrackprämie and Co.) now the next autolobby-friendly behavior of a red-green-yellow coalition stands. You and I are the last ones to be thought of. Not to mention the sustainability and the calculated price explosions after the end of the three-month tax cut.
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•@InvestmentPapa I agree with you completely! I just wanted that the poor people from the country, which must now often really turn every penny is not forgotten. As it makes the policy with the 9 euro ticket. Without a doubt, our rail network must be expanded so that one has any other choice than driving a car.
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@MCKaden The question that arises is to what extent, statistically speaking, poorer or, let's say, low-income people with cars are actually on the road in the country. If these are really such precarious situations that I no longer come to work because of the 0.35 €, then here too, very different things are going wrong than just this supposed discount. 😏
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