The "Deutschlandticket" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ticket will be €9 more expensive.
The 9-Euro-Ticket (German pronunciation: [ˌnɔʏ̯n ˈɔʏ̯ʁo ˈtɪkət]) was a German scheme through which passengers could travel for 9 euros (€) per month on local and regional transport in all of Germany. The tickets were valid for June, July, or August 2022. The offer aimed at reducing energy use amid the 2021–2022 global energy crisis.[
49 euro monthly ticket
Main article: Deutschlandticket
On 13 October 2022, the transport ministers of the federal states and Federal Transport Minister Wissing announced that they had agreed on a successor ticket dubbed Deutschlandticket, which is expected to be available from January 2023 and cost 49 euros per month. At this time, the financing scheme remained unclear, as the states demanded the federal government to contribute more money.[27][28]
Sounds like it’s seen a lot of variability in price over the past couple years.
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.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-Euro-Ticket
Sounds like it’s seen a lot of variability in price over the past couple years.
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.
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.