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In most of Germany urban areas and metropolitan cities are just a 30-45min train ride away. At the normal ticket pricing you will pay 32 euros for the roundtrip
by Zetobal 4y ago
In most of Germany urban areas and metropolitan cities are just a 30-45min train ride away. At the normal ticket pricing you will pay 32 euros for the roundtrip. Now you pay 49 for the whole month. It's a game changer for a lot of people living in rural areas despite everyone without any knowledge living in those areas arguing against it but it's Germany of course everyone and their mom will argue against it with arguments that have no meaning for the people it really effects.
- dathinab 4y agoAnd most people do live in the cities and don't do such round trips too often. And many people doing a lot of city jumping fall into a more high income area and use IC/ICE trains not covered by the ticket (faster, and more convenient). And that is grate! Because it part of what enabled the push for such a ticket. Now we get a ticket which mostly is just about having a 49€ ticket for you local public transportation, while also having the convenience of not having to bother when taking some week end trips to close by lakes or similar, while being a big benefit for the people living in the "countryside" which is overdue IMHO, while also giving people more options to live outside/close by a city which can take a bit pressure from the housing market. And to top it off it makes it easier to sell it to better earning car focused people hopefully helping with a shift away from people owning/using cars all the time.