Carina Zachau told The Local that she had been told by a state secretary (a senior political aide in Sweden) in the government that cross-border commuters would also be covered – although she stressed that she had not been told this formally and would not be able to confirm it completely until next Tuesday when the government is expected to publish the details of the subsidy scheme.
She said the Moderate Party, which controls Region Skåne along with the Christian Democrats and the Liberal Party, welcomed the decision to include commuters in the scheme.
"We have been very clear from the very beginning that if we are going to halve the price of public transport in the whole of Sweden, we can't forget commuters across the Öresund Bridge," she said.
"There are almost 25,000 people every day who commute and it is often the case that they are forgotten, so we are very happy that we have got this far."
A 30-day ticket between Copenhagen and Skåne today costs 2,670 Swedish kronor (1,832 Danish kroner), meaning a monthly saving for commuters of 1,335 kronor if the scheme also applies to commuter tickets.
When the government announced the halving of the price of monthly tickets at the end of last month, they said that the scheme would come into force on July 1st and continue to December 31st.
A total of 6.5 billion kronor has been earmarked for the scheme.
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