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In Germany you can buy a Bahncard 100 for roughly 4k, which allows you to take any Deutsche Bahn train at any time. Not sure if the cost should scale with size

In Germany you can buy a Bahncard 100 for roughly 4k, which allows you to take any Deutsche Bahn train at any time. Not sure if the cost should scale with size of counrty, but I guess 4x is roughly reasonable between Austria and Germany. Austria probably is more expensive to build railroad in, since it's mostly mountains.

adrianN 5y ago
The Bahncard 100 doesn't include all public transport though. Austria also invests about twice as much (per capita) into rail infrastructure as Germany.
- w-m 5y ago
  Which is a bit silly, but more a theoretical problem, right? I'd assume (I can't actually find a map of the coverage), that people for whom a BC 100 makes sense travel mostly by train, thus live near a train station with a good connection. Which will then be in one of the 130 cities that include the public transport with the City Ticket.
  - adrianN 5y ago
    Everybody I know who has a Bahncard 100 uses it for commuting. While they generally live "close" to a train station they need public transport on both ends of the journey and buy additional tickets, e.g. another ~60€/month for a Berlin ticket.
    - w-m 5y ago
      Berlin A+B is included (one of the 130 cities). Or do they live outside, in zone C?
      - adrianN 5y ago
        In Berlin only A is included as far as I know.
pvitz 5y ago
Just for comparison: For commuting 40km to a city in Germany including public transport in the city, I have to pay around 1.800,- EUR per year. It is expected that the Austrian 'Klimaticket' will include also the public transport in the whole Eastern region (i.e. Vienna and all surroundings). This is much better than what you could get in Germany at the moment.