Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I commuted by train to the city (Nürnberg) for 15 years (42 minutes by train, 15 minutes to the station, 15 minutes on foot) and now have been driving a car (company car) again for 1.5 years. By far the largest part would drive by car if it were not significantly more expensive financially.

Packed, stuffy and dirty trains, filthy stations, 0.0 service or customer care, crime and violence, permanent construction work, rail replacement service (anyone who has done this for 2-3 months easily becomes panicked at the word), etc.

As long as the "offer" here does not improve overall, even a general 9€ ticket will not get the majority onto public transport. You could already see this from the studies on the 9€ ticket in the summer. Most people just took cheap trips around in their free time.

In my opinion, construction prices will at most stagnate in the coming years; I do not see a decline in prices. Raw material shortages, the energy issue, high inflation and resulting rising wage and material costs will keep prices high.

How are construction costs developing in 2023. Who dares to make a forecast.

I would say still unchanged...

How are construction costs developing in 2023. Who dares to make a forecast.

Tendentially not cheaper. Energy prices remain high, there are certainly still some cost increases in the supply chains that have not been passed on yet, the supply chains themselves are still difficult, and the regulations are also being tightened. The low demand will slowly have an effect in 2023, most old projects should be slowly finished by then. At this point, I would worry less about the construction costs themselves and more about the interest rate. It has the greater potential to burst dreams.

Edit: I don’t even want to complain about the frequency of one hour if the train would at least come reliably.

A low frequency would not be a problem if you only need a direct connection. In reality, however, you often have to change trains, then you have the low frequency twice and corresponding waiting time during the connection.

however, besides the request taxis there is also carsharing, which really works great.

Carsharing is great to avoid having a second car. I use it several times a year. Recently, a short trip of 3 km, where I needed a trunk. I am very glad to be able to use carsharing easily in the city. In rural areas, the offer is probably not available again?

But unfortunately, with most providers, you have to bring the car back exactly to the place where you picked it up. That makes it way too expensive for a trip to work, because you also pay for the 8 hours of work time, even though the car is just standing there again. Carsharing costs about €2/hour on the time axis.

We have a carsharing point in the village. There is a bus (my Fiat or VW) which, if needed, has the benches installed or removed. It can simply be borrowed or used as a kind of volunteer shuttle. This way, for example, people from the neighboring village can get to the supermarket or to the neighboring municipality (different district) to catch the bus to their district town.

Politics should of course step out of this big city Blubble and especially focus on rural areas.

If the number "In 2021, around 77.5 percent of the total population of Germany lived in cities."*, thus among those over 18 the number of voters, is correct, it becomes relatively clear why politicians first have to take care of the needs of city dwellers. *Source: Statista