Overview
- Hesse put a proposal to the national transport ministers’ conference to study ticket-controlled access to platforms at large stations, but no agreement emerged.
- State minister Kaweh Mansoori argues that only people with a valid ticket should be able to reach the platform at major hubs.
- He points to systems in London, Madrid and Paris that use gates such as turnstiles or sliding doors opened by a barcode or QR code.
- Mansoori names Frankfurt as a key test case where gates could raise safety and the feeling of security on regional, S‑Bahn and U‑Bahn services.
- He also calls for more security staff, smarter video monitoring and better training, and BILD links his push to recent fare-evasion violence including a conductor’s killing.