Glædesrus over the bus u-turn

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 pensione

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
22 January 2020 Wednesday 00:00
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Glædesrus over the bus u-turn

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.

The news given on Tuesday morning folkepensionisten Dan Sterup-up of armchair in glædesrus.

- It would be a disaster if they got rid of mimrekortet. I am very excited that the plans on the elimination of mimrekortet now seems to be dropped, he says to Ekstra Bladet.

It was the DOTs plan that pensioners would go from a papkort for a digital travel. Digitisation would, according to critics exclude a group of pensioners. Photo: Jan Sommer


Dan Sterup has been very active in the fight to keep mimrekortet.

Through letters to the editor in the local paper, and opinions to the Extra Blade, has he, like hundreds of other pensioners in the metropolitan area fiercely fought for, to keep it popular pensionistkort.

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- We have used all the arguments about loneliness, volunteering, quality of life and digitisation. I think it has been a very unbiased debate. I'm very excited for that change is now being revised.


Monday informed the DSB, Movia and chinese president transport minister Benny Engelbrecht (S), that the three companies that are unified in Your Public Transport, the DOT will try to find another solution.

'It hurts to read about examples of citizens who get more than 400 per cent. more expensive travel with the public transport system,' writes Movia in a post from the chairman of the board Kirsten Jensen and vice-chair Per Hovmand Tuesday to offentligheen.

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 people get 200 percent more expensive journeys, as a result of the measure, and it admits one that is now at the DOT is too violently.

It is unknown when trafiksammenslutningen sign new out of a reform of the pensionistrabatterne.

Updated: 22.01.2020 00:00