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If it's really also for long distance rail, that's a lot of value. For comparison, the German Railway has something similar (but I think only for the railway) a

If it's really also for long distance rail, that's a lot of value. For comparison, the German Railway has something similar (but I think only for the railway) and it costs easily 3x as much. It's a bigger country but regardless. I live and work in a smaller city where I don't really need public transport, but when I was working in a city near me, the monthly ticket for the two cities was more than this. I don't know much about living in Austria, but in my mind it should be a no brainer for a lot of people.

lonesword 5y ago
Deutsche Bahn's BahnCard 100 [1] is around 4k euros per year and gives unlimited access to all DB trains as well as a city pass to around 110 towns in Germany. The city pass does't help if you have to commute to a suburb, but it's still pretty useful (though pricey) IMO. >but when I was working in a city near me, the monthly ticket for the two cities was more than this I commute between Cologne and Aachen, and the monthly ticket would have been around 288 (per month) euros if I had to fund it myself. My employer got me a "job ticket" that made the cost of this commute to around 98 euros per month. However, for your employer to apply for a jobticket they should employ a minimum number of people who would avail that offer (15 in Aachen, if I remember correctly). I have no idea why a regular person can't apply for this ticket if they really do commute the same route daily. [1] https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/bahncard/bahncard_100-conditions https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/bahncard/bahncard_100-conditi...
- locallost 5y ago
  I live in a city way smaller than Cologne or Aachen and my commute was only 20 mins so it's not surprising that the price was much cheaper in my case. I've never heard of the job ticket so it maybe doesn't exist everywhere or at least not back then. But anyway that's one of the things that annoy me, all these options that I need to know. I went with my son, we got normal tickets and then somebody told me to get ticket X instead which is more expensive, but I can take kids for free. So this type of a ticket would solve a lot of problems and make it real easy for people to just ride.

lonesword 5y ago

Deutsche Bahn's BahnCard 100 [1] is around 4k euros per year and gives unlimited access to all DB trains as well as a city pass to around 110 towns in Germany. The city pass does't help if you have to commute to a suburb, but it's still pretty useful (though pricey) IMO. >but when I was working in a city near me, the monthly ticket for the two cities was more than this I commute between Cologne and Aachen, and the monthly ticket would have been around 288 (per month) euros if I had to fund it myself. My employer got me a "job ticket" that made the cost of this commute to around 98 euros per month. However, for your employer to apply for a jobticket they should employ a minimum number of people who would avail that offer (15 in Aachen, if I remember correctly). I have no idea why a regular person can't apply for this ticket if they really do commute the same route daily. [1] https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/bahncard/bahncard_100-conditions https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/bahncard/bahncard_100-conditi...

locallost 5y ago
I live in a city way smaller than Cologne or Aachen and my commute was only 20 mins so it's not surprising that the price was much cheaper in my case. I've never heard of the job ticket so it maybe doesn't exist everywhere or at least not back then. But anyway that's one of the things that annoy me, all these options that I need to know. I went with my son, we got normal tickets and then somebody told me to get ticket X instead which is more expensive, but I can take kids for free. So this type of a ticket would solve a lot of problems and make it real easy for people to just ride.