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I used to live in Austria before Covid without a car and travel to my home country by train on weekends. I have the feeling they are doing this because they lo

• droopyEyelids 5y ago
  Thats how it worked in Chicago: everyone stopped riding due to sars-cov-2, the Transit Authority started selling 1/3 price passes, ridership picked right back up.
• sk7 5y ago
  You are wrong, the idea is much older and the idea for the current version (initially called 1-2-3 Ticket) was suggested by the green party in 2013 already. More Infos in the history (in German): https://kurier.at/politik/inland/gruene-spoe-oder-oevp-wer-hat-das-1-2-3-klimaticket-erfunden/400717488 https://kurier.at/politik/inland/gruene-spoe-oder-oevp-wer-h...
• holri 5y ago
  They are doing this because the green party is in the government now. This is a long-standing demand of the green party to lower CO2 emissions. They first did this in Vienna a few years ago, when they were in the city government. Now they are in the federal government and are rolling this out for all of Austria, since it was a huge success in Vienna, car travel was dramatically reduced.