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The financially-constrained people I know usually don’t use the IC/ICE - they take the extra hour or two to save 30+ EUR. Plus, making the IC/ICE all you can ri
by MandieD 4y ago
The financially-constrained people I know usually don’t use the IC/ICE - they take the extra hour or two to save 30+ EUR. Plus, making the IC/ICE all you can ride for 1/10th the current all-you-can-ride price would make getting to the airport or next big city for urgent business as dicey as going anywhere fun on the regional trains this summer was.
As a German taxpayer, I’m absolutely fine with the 49 EUR ticket not covering the fast trains, but making in-region commuting cheaper and simpler. A Nürnberg-only ticket is something on the order of 60 EUR/mo with an annual contract or 80 if you can’t commit, so this is going to be at least 10 EUR/mo. back in the pockets of a lot of people it really matters to (tickets that cover suburbs like Erlangen are even more expensive).
- throwaway4good 4y agoI would be worried that the German public transit would be strained further; I remember crowded and massively delayed trains this summer. It semms like an odd policy to split public transport into a cheap, crowded and unreliable part while you have nice modern trains running half empty.
- dj_mc_merlin 4y ago> nice modern trains running half empty Anecdotally, reserving a ticket (with a seat) on IC/Es on the same day as you travel has been quite hard for me unless you splurge on 1st class or travel at unusual times. I do travel on quite a busy route however.