Klimaticket saved, but goes chameleon

[Andover]

After some lengthy and messy negotiations, it looks to be pretty much confirmed Austria will be getting an 'all right' coalition government. Looming dramatic cuts have been the main subject in those negotiations, and the Klimaticket was considered a prime target.

However, simply too many people have benefitted from the offer, certainly including many voters of the future government parties, so outright abolition was mooted but never very likely. Instead, it will be renamed from Klimaticket to Österreich-Ticket, which I'm sure is a massive efficiency saving. The free year for anyone turning 18 will also be eliminated, so that does at least save some hard cash.

 

[duesselmartin]

that is because the FPÖ denies the existance of climate
ÖBB is one of the better European national rail companies with solid investment in infrastructure.
Lets hope they don't go the German way.

 

[Andover]

To be fair, the Klimaticket name was both a fairly blatant attempt to brand it as a Green project (arguably fair enough, I doubt it would have happened without them) and also itself a renaming. The idea and similar ones had been known under all sorts of different names over the years (the one immediately before that was itself associated with the social democrats) so in a sense the FPÖ are simply following tradition here. And 'Austria ticket' would actually have been a pretty good neutral name before becoming associated with them...

ÖBB is one of the better European national rail companies with solid investment in infrastructure.
Lets hope they don't go the German way.

Agreed.