Germany to introduce nationwide €49/month public transit pass

It&#x27;s not going to sell as much as the 9 Euro Ticket, but it&#x27;s going to get a lot of commuting people out of cars and into trains. Even going from neighboring small-medium towns is roughly 100+ monthly. People using cars like certain advantages a car has and the prices were in the ballpark in the past, but with current prices those advantages become meaningless quick.<p>As a lot of things it&#x27;s a compromise, but overall I think it&#x27;s a good thing.

From an infrequent visitor, EUR49 a month for all public transportation is reasonable. Also I can just buy a digital ticket before coming to Germany and then use it in any cities sound fantastic.

Sounds awesome if they can pull it off. I&#x27;d love to have the interurban back in the USA. Since they already got one, this looks doable.

For reference, a transit pass JUST for Toronto costs like $200, and you can&#x27;t even travel outside Toronto proper.

That’s a very, very reasonable price.

&gt; <i>The proposal follows a wildly successful “9-euro ticket,” which was on offer in Germany for three months this summer</i><p>I don&#x27;t like this sort of misleading hyperbole.<p>It is obvious that essentially free travel during the peak travel season would sell like hot cakes, it does not tell us anything new, though.<p>&gt; <i>“With the 9-euro-ticket we showed: simplicity is better,” Transport Minister Volker Wissing said Thursday</i><p>Simplicity might be better but this really showed that people like a free lunch, unsurprisingly.