Train travel: France and Germany plan discounted ticket for young people

Younger individuals travelling between Germany and France may quickly profit from ultra-cheap practice tickets.

The 2 international locations plan to launch a "Franco-German practice ticket for younger individuals,” transport authorities introduced on Saturday.

It’s not but clear how a lot this "particular youth ticket at a decreased worth" will price, or what age group it'll apply to.

However additional particulars can be set out when the Franco-German Council of Ministers meets in January 2023.

The ticket will encourage inter-European journey and assist to scale back carbon emissions, stated Volker Wissing, Germany’s Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Affairs.

"With a view to obtain our local weather targets for the transport sector, we have now to persuade much more individuals to journey by practice. To do that, we have now to make enticing provides,” he stated.

"I'm satisfied that with such a ticket, we are going to strengthen each the connection between our two international locations and the climate-friendly mode of rail.”

Wissing’s French counterpart Clément Beaune echoed these sentiments.

"Journey and change are on the coronary heart of the Franco-German relationship. This is a vital step in our widespread ambition for European development and ecological transition", he stated.

Have discounted rail ticket schemes succeeded prior to now?

Over the summer time, Germany launched a €9 monthly ticket as an experiment. A budget ticket - launched to attempt to fight rising inflation and encourage individuals to take extra environmentally-friendly transport - enabled individuals to journey throughout practice, bus and tram networks all through the nation.

The practice cross may see discounted journey between Germany and FranceCanva

German transport firms affiliation VDV stated that it saved round 1.8 million tonnes of carbon emissions in three months.

Final week, the German authorities launched a successor to the scheme - a €49 monthly ticket.

The brand new ‘Deutschlandticket’ or German Ticket, will price customers round €1.60 per day, and is legitimate on buses and trains - all brief and medium-distance public transport. It's not legitimate on intercity trains.

It is going to be applied “as quickly as doable”, in line with an announcement from the Federal Authorities. This could possibly be as quickly as 1 January 2023.