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What nonsense. I was in Berlin last month, the ticket buying experience is abysmal. The machines don’t work. Sometime (don’t know when) you can only buy tickets

What nonsense. I was in Berlin last month, the ticket buying experience is abysmal. The machines don’t work. Sometime (don’t know when) you can only buy tickets on the train since they don’t have ticket machines at every station. When you do try to use the machines it’s some ridiculous combination of zones and unspellable names you have to type out to get your ticket that isn’t intuitive at all. In NYC, buy ticket on machine -> works for one trip wherever you’re going in the city. Outside the city? Just talk to the person at the ticket window and they tell you what to get.

msoad 4y ago
The 9 Euro ticket was super easy to buy for me. I bought it in the airport. Not sure why it was so hard for you. I don't speak a single word of German either.
- bergenty 4y ago
  Isn’t that like a limited time thing? Try starting at a random station and navigating from there. I was at seegersfeld trying to get into Berlin and it was ridiculous. Also getting back there at the end of the night. It also had nothing to do with speaking german, everyone I spoke to in Germany seemed to somehow know English.
  - Lacerda69 4y ago
    You are correct, it was limited thing from july to august this summer. unfortunately it's over now. it had a lot of benefits, making public transport really easy for everyone was just one. it also saved a ton of co2 and enabled a lot of people to travel around the country, who werent able otherwise. RIP 9€ ticket, you will be sorely missed:/
- ThePadawan 4y ago
  German here: The 9 Euro ticket is a brilliant innovation compared to what came before and is now coming back after it: Extremely complicated fare zone issues. I'm not trying to be rude, just trying to clarify: Saying that the 9 Euro ticket is easy to buy is like saying a 20 hour flight is comfortable, because you flew Emirates First Class.
Symbiote 4y ago
In the spring, at a station within Berlin's public transport zone, I found that pressing the British flag for English removed the local transport options (zone A+B, zone A+B+C etc) from the screen. It left me only with the option to buy a point-to-point train ticket. It was simple without changing the interface to English.
- bergenty 4y ago
  I changed it to English as well but still got all the zoning options.

msoad 4y ago

The 9 Euro ticket was super easy to buy for me. I bought it in the airport. Not sure why it was so hard for you. I don't speak a single word of German either.

bergenty 4y ago
Isn’t that like a limited time thing? Try starting at a random station and navigating from there. I was at seegersfeld trying to get into Berlin and it was ridiculous. Also getting back there at the end of the night. It also had nothing to do with speaking german, everyone I spoke to in Germany seemed to somehow know English.
- Lacerda69 4y ago
  You are correct, it was limited thing from july to august this summer. unfortunately it's over now. it had a lot of benefits, making public transport really easy for everyone was just one. it also saved a ton of co2 and enabled a lot of people to travel around the country, who werent able otherwise. RIP 9€ ticket, you will be sorely missed:/
ThePadawan 4y ago
German here: The 9 Euro ticket is a brilliant innovation compared to what came before and is now coming back after it: Extremely complicated fare zone issues. I'm not trying to be rude, just trying to clarify: Saying that the 9 Euro ticket is easy to buy is like saying a 20 hour flight is comfortable, because you flew Emirates First Class.

Symbiote 4y ago

In the spring, at a station within Berlin's public transport zone, I found that pressing the British flag for English removed the local transport options (zone A+B, zone A+B+C etc) from the screen. It left me only with the option to buy a point-to-point train ticket. It was simple without changing the interface to English.

bergenty 4y ago
I changed it to English as well but still got all the zoning options.