And 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 an

And 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.