This year's fare and timetable change in the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) will take place on Sunday, 13 December 2009.
Takeover of operation of lines 800, 801 and 802
With the termination of the transport contract between the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund and Regionalverkehr Kurhessen for a partial service on lines 800, 801 and 802 at this year's timetable change, Stadtwerke Gießen will take over the complete transport service between Gießen and Wettenberg. The associated transport service will be provided by MIT.BUS GmbH, a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Gießen. Newly procured natural gas vehicles are used. In addition to the usual single, day and group tickets of price levels 1-7 in the Rhine-Main transport network, tickets for the special Wettenberg fare and season tickets for the Wettenberg - Giessen route in price level 2 can still be purchased on the buses of Stadtwerke Giessen. Season tickets for all other routes in the Rhine-Main transport network can be purchased at the mobility centre on Marktplatz or at other advance booking offices.
Changes to fares and sales
Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund GmbH is increasing prices by an average of 2.8 per cent for this year's fare change. This is in line with last year's price increase of 2.9 per cent. Increased costs for the use of stations and tracks, higher personnel costs and higher energy prices are having a significant impact on costs. Nevertheless, buses and trains continue to be very attractive mobility options in terms of price.
General price increases, but in particular higher personnel and fuel costs, also have an impact on Giessen's city bus fares. For example, the single ticket for adults will increase from 1.50 euros to 1.60 euros. Instead of 33.70 euros, a monthly ticket will cost 34.60 euros in future. In future, monthly tickets for trainees can be purchased for 28.20 euros. The 9 o'clock ticket will increase in price from 28.70 euros to 29.40 euros. For Gießenpass tickets, the price of a single ticket will increase to 0.80 euros. The monthly ticket will increase from 17.70 euros to 18.10 euros. Pupils and trainees will pay 14.10 euros for their monthly ticket instead of 13.80 euros.
The annual tickets for everyone and the CleverCard for schoolchildren and trainees remain particularly favourable for frequent travellers. The following applies to the annual travelcard: travel for twelve months and pay for ten months; the same applies to the CleverCard: travel for twelve months and pay for eight months.
Changes to the timetable:
Changes to the Stadtwerke Gießen AG (SWG) city bus timetable concern, on the one hand, journey time adjustments between various stops in the route network. The deployment and departure times of the reinforcement vehicles have been adapted to demand.
SWG has summarised what is new after the timetable change for its customers:
Line 2:
In the direction of Eichendorffring, the departure times between the railway station and Marktplatz have been changed, as the departure time at the railway station has been brought forward by 1 minute.
Lines 3 and 13:
The first journey on Saturdays at 05:52 from the Friedhof stop to Nordanlage has been cancelled. The journey will start at 06:02 from the Oswaldsgarten stop.
Lines 5 and 15:
Changes have been made to the departure times between Landgericht Marktplatz and Oswaldsgarten. The 06:57 journey from the Greizer Straße stop will be brought forward by 2 minutes and will no longer run directly to the station forecourt from the Marktplatz stop. However, commuters to the station can take the new route from Marktplatz via Oswaldsgarten to the multi-storey car park stop in Lahnstraße and use the transfer to the station there. Scheduled arrival at the multi-storey car park is at 07:22 (previous arrival at the station: 07:25)
Line 9:
Journey time adjustments have been made. The departure times have been synchronised to make them easier for users to remember. The departure times on Mondays and Fridays from the Alfred-Bock-Straße stop have been moved to minute 20 from 09:20. This also applies to journeys on Saturdays from 10.20 am. The departure times from the Marktplatz stop have been standardised to every 30 minutes from 09:30 on Mondays to Fridays and from 10:30 on Saturdays.
Line 24
The journey times between Giessen station and Marktplatz have been adjusted. The departure time at the station forecourt is 2 minutes earlier than before. Arrival at Giessen railway station is 2 minutes later. No changes have been made on the route between Wetzlar bus station and Gießen Marktplatz or in the opposite direction.
Line 800
The last journey at 00:21 from the Marktplatz stop in the direction of Wettenberg/Wißmar and Wettenberg/Krofdorf-Gleiberg will no longer run.
Our staff at the mobility centre in the infoCentre on Marktplatz will be happy to answer any questions you may have on the subject of mobility. The mobility centre is open Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 18:00 and on Saturdays from 09:00 to 14:00. The current 2010 timetable book is also available there. Further information about the fare and timetable changes can be found at www.rmv.de and www.stadtwerke-giessen.de.