In the previous week, it emerged that Movia and the other company in the group the DOT had plans to phase out mimrekortet, which is a rebate system for pensioners.
But the measure met with great criticism, and the DOT has now decided to drop the plans and find a different arrangement.
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It informs Movia in a post from the chairman of the board Kirsten Jensen and vice-chair Per Hovmand.
‘It hurts to read about examples of citizens who get more than 400 per cent. more expensive travel with the public transport system,’ they write, among other things.
Mimrekortet is a scheme that applies only to the east of the great belt, and the scheme must therefore be changed, for that there is more consistency between the prices as a result of the law, writes Movia.
‘But quickly introduced and very large price increases creates uncertainty about what it will mean for the individual pensioner rejsemønster. And when you make so much of, call it, too, that we maybe go a little more cautiously than we in the DOT had first put up to,’ it sounds in the post.
They explain that with the proposal will have a 150,000 pensioners cheaper travel, while 60,000 more will get more expensive travel. 2000 persons will get 200 percent more expensive journeys, as a result of the measure, and it admits therefore now in the hands of Movia is too violently.
the minister of Transport was, therefore, Monday night informed that you will prepare a proposal for a different model than the one that has been put up to by the abolition of the mimrekortet.
In the new model will, according to Movia both be taken into account the concerns that have come forward, while the man on the other hand, maintain the basic principle that pensionistrabatten should get all the liberal retirees for the benefit, such as the law and the Office of the auditor general has pointed out’
