The Danes have to live with more expensive public transport. On Sunday last week, ticket prices rose again. And that's how it should be, says the transport minister.
– It has to be bad to be good.
This is what Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen (V) says to Ekstra Bladet on top of the news about price increases in public transport.
Price increases that came into effect on Sunday last week. On average, the price increases are just over 10 percent. But they can be even higher.
Customer manager at DSB Charlotte Kjærulff excuses herself by saying that there is still money to be saved if you take the public service outside rush hour.
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However, the criticism of the high prices bounces off Thomas Danielsen, who cannot understand that anyone criticizes a price increase that is due to inflation.
– We are trying to stop it with an overdraft and a cash like for the transport companies, says the minister.
And then people who use public transport will otherwise just have to wait for investments to be made in e.g. the railway network.
– It is an expression that it must be bad, because it will be good, the minister tells Ekstra Bladet.
Conversely, price increases in buses, trains and light rail are no help to private motorists either. Not even though the transport minister said last year that the government stands firm on a very specific point. Read more about it here .
