Germany releases a monthly travel pass for 49 Euros!

[thewayne]

What an excellent idea! All buses and trains, unlimited ridership, about $53USD. Of course you can never see something like that in the USA because that would be SOCIALISM! Or something like that. Also a huge PITA to administer.

This would be a heck of a bargain if you're going to vacation in Germany for a couple of weeks, even more so if you live there. ;-)

As the article says, it's valid for "almost all forms of public transport apart from long-distance intercity trains. Cross-country travel will still be possible using regional trains, significantly reducing costs for some people who used to pay hundreds of euros a month for their regular commutes."

https://apnews.com/article/germany-public-transit-cheap-ticket-trains-metro-3d83f1a35ab8e3945b8034b9bd511c29

Comments

[thewayne]

I used the bus frequently when i was in high school, I was taking classes at the community college in downtown Phoenix and we lived a block away from the main line that went all the way downtown.  My folks would pick me up at night after i was done.  And I use the Metro in DC when I'm there.  And we used the U-Bahn subway system in Berlin when we spent a week there in '15.  But otherwise, it's ineffective here.  While Alamogordo does have busses, they don't run the 20 miles up the mountain to Cloudcroft. I do wish we had effective train service in this country in the western half.  We really enjoyed taking a train from Berlin to Prague on that trip, so much easier than flying, for the most part.

[kaishin108]

It doesn't seem like they care to service the railroad tracks here! All the accidents. They applied for a train to come back in service from here to Portland and also south to SLC. I hope so.

And there is a bus that is expanding routes from Boise to SLC and Seattle and Vegas too. I hope things improve on that front here in the Western states.