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> making the price 29 Euros would mean double the expected ticket sales Do you have any justification for that claim, or is that just pulling figures out of th

> making the price 29 Euros would mean double the expected ticket sales Do you have any justification for that claim, or is that just pulling figures out of thin air? If reducing the price by less (!) than half would that clearly mean double (!) the sales we wouldn't have had the debate we had now – which partly apparently was because the original 3 billion headline figure was estimated based on a ticket price of 69 €, but then the oh-so-wise politicians thought that 49 € would be an even nicer figure. Only on closer calculation it turned out that the additional sales from that lower price very likely wouldn't offset the additional losses generated by all already existing customers paying even less.

mschild 4y ago
Based on calculations done by Greenpeace using data collected by several institutes on peoples willingness to pay for a public transport ticket. The press release [0] and actual report in pdf [1] [0] https://presseportal.greenpeace.de/219048-greenpeace-kalkulation-29-euro-ticket-kostet-staat-nicht-mehr-als-49-euro-ticket https://presseportal.greenpeace.de/219048-greenpeace-kalkula... [1] https://www.greenpeace.de/publikationen/Kalkulation_Klimaticket.pdf?utm_campaign=verkehr&utm_source=www.greenpeace.de&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=press-release&utm_term=klimaticket https://www.greenpeace.de/publikationen/Kalkulation_Klimatic...