• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    Not really. The 9€ ticket was an emergency measure for 3 months. It’s the soft version of car free sundays.

    But since it was so successful, it got turned into a more permanent scheme. 9€ for a whole month of basically free travel was not sustainable, so 49€ was the compromise.

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      1 month ago

      Of course it would’ve been sustainable public transport is getting financed via taxes one way or the other. We could make public transit free at the point of use, no issue finance-wise we’d probably save money overall due to secondary effects, up to fewer respiratory issues.

      The political will not being there to pump taxes into it the next best thing would be “X days out of a month” type options. I don’t need a monthly ticket, I don’t need a weekly ticket, wouldn’t use either enough to justify them, what I want is a ticket that lets me travel what 5-10 days in a month, freely chosen.