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It was always unofficially free.

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First time it ever occurred to me, but now that I’ve read it, of course! Why wouldn’t every city make this free?! Solving transportation woes is a surefire way to stoke your economy, and removing payments is going to make public transportation more efficient and cheaper to maintain (no ticket kiosks getting vandalized, no payment processors to pay). Seems like a win win for any congested city.

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Yeah but theres a catch as well - the timetables/schedules are scrapped too. So you wont know when will the bus arrive or will it even arrive at that day.

It doesn’t sound great when you realize you cant really enjoy a free bus ride when theres no bus coming.

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honestly when it comes to holidays the best part is having a cheap and easily navigable public transport system so you can get around to do all your cool shit painlessly. Serbia had suddenly become an interesting prospect!

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Germany just raised the nationwide ticket from 49 to 58€, awesome.

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D-ticket was well intentioned but a bad idea from the start. Discalimer: not a German and I only used it once (well twice because it was impossible to buy just one month)

The administrative overhead of centrally gathering all the funds and then portioning them to individual agencies must be hell. And according to what criteria? It makes the responsibility for funding even more murky than it is. Regional tickets also have to keep existing so it means the entire old ticketing system must remain functional even though few people are using it.

Germany led the way on tariff integration with it’s “Verkehrsverbund”. The difference being that service planning and ticketing were done by the same agency. Involving the central government doesn’t seem like a good idea, sooner or later national politics will start influencing local transit.

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For a year? Still seems cheap!

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Per month.

And it already was so expensive before that most customers were those who had (more expensive, regional) tickets before.

It seems like they want to drive up the price until hardly anyone uses it anymore and then drop it for lack of demand.

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You call that expensive? That’s still only 2/3 what a monthly transit pass costs in my city in the US.

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It certainly attracted me as a tourist to Germany. I travelled a lot in Germany in the last few years, probably wouldn’t have (as much) if train rides had cost as much as before the Deutschlandticket.

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That’s how it was done in US. Also created a strong car brain that is nearly impossible to argue with. Just need to upgrade the trains until they are the better option then they will start understanding.

They do like EU trains but some how it doesn’t connect that we could have them here outside of NE

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