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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Luckily we're on the right track with Germany's 49€ ticket. Now these types of tickets just need to spread and maybe one day we're gonna have a unified EU ticket.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but most train journeys you would replace a flight with are way too long and arduous with the 49€ ticket because that only allows regional trains and not the high speed IC/ICE trains. Those are the ones that need to get cheaper if we want people to stop flying.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we had an inter-european ticket it could be more expensive and allow you to take high speed trains. It would be silly to give it the same restrictions that the German ticket has.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm just saying there are already flight journeys within Germany that could be replaced by train and there the same problem applies. I wasn't suggesting that a hypothetical European ticket would have similar restrictions.

[–] miffmaff 19 points 1 year ago

In austria we have a ~1000€ ticket for all public transport for a whole year. I think thats a great start, being able to use whatever bus/tram/train for 3€ per day is pretty awsome.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure hope so. Meanwhile, in The Netherlands, we’re raising train ticket prices once again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recently, I was thinking about a hypothetical trip to the Netherlands and looking for the train prices. I was suprised how expensive they really are. As I understand it, a day ticket costs more than the DeutschlandTicket for a month, and relatively even more if you consider discounted DeutschlandTickets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s really unfortunate yeah. The other day I saw some tips on saving money by booking international train tickets via the foreign rail operator vs NS International. Saving 50% on your ticket price was pretty much guaranteed.

[–] jablaxlgargl 6 points 1 year ago

But that also only works for short distance trains. And the distances you would go by plane are not really feasible like this.

[–] Wergul 4 points 1 year ago

There is interrail for EU tickets.