> Hopefully it gets extended beyond April. Very unlikely, it was explicitly meant to only be a transition ticket until the thing which now became the 49€ ticke

> Hopefully it gets extended beyond April. Very unlikely, it was explicitly meant to only be a transition ticket until the thing which now became the 49€ ticket is ready. In a certain way it was a (expensive) publicity stunt of the local government. Through for very low income people there is a separate even cheaper ticket, through only Berlin AB. There is no way they will permanently reduce the price of the VBB Ticket below that of the 49€ ticket AFIK. Ironically the reason the 49€ ticket is a thing and cost 49€ and not more is because they assume most people don't travel Germany too much and will buy the ticket from their local transportation provider and in turn the "use where vs. bought where" ratio will somewhat average out to a point where with a bit sampling when checking for tickets you can fairly handle the resource allocation (through then it not being a free market but a state subvention-ed one plays a big role, too).