Denmark is doing a similar thing ...
Interesting. Do you have a link with more info?
9-Euro-Ticket
141–150 of 598 posts
Re: 9-Euro-Ticket
#142Wild - that gets me barely a days worth of tube travel in london (6.5 EUR a day)
To be fair that is what it costs in Germany as well under normal circumstances. A day ticket for central Hamburg is about 8 EUR a day.
And even that is cheap compared compared to Oslo and Stockholm where it costs 12-13 EUR a day. On the whole the London Underground is quite reasonably priced compared to many major European cities.
Re: 9-Euro-Ticket
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bicycles are the most efficient form of transportation if we’re talking energy use, but yes, trains beat out cars by a lot. :)
Absolutetly not since the fuel (human food) is horribly CO2 intensive to produce.
You’re still going to eat no matter how you travel though! That’s non-negotiable regardless of mode.
(Also, e-bikes exist too, if you’re really worried that people exercising might eat a little bit more.)
Re: 9-Euro-Ticket
#144Hmm, so social distancing is truly gone and they don't fear this action massively spreading the COVID virus?
It's summer, everybody who wants to has three or even four vaccinations, most people have already had it on top of that, it's safe to say that Covid doesn't spread massively here at the moment.
Maybe another wave with a new variant or in autumn, but it'll most likely be mild as omicron is and there is so much resistance built up now.
So for all practical purposes, Covid is over at the moment.
Re: 9-Euro-Ticket
#145Re: 9-Euro-Ticket
#146I can't seem to find information on whether it is possible to purchase the ticket as a non German citizen.
> I can't seem to find information on whether it is possible to purchase the ticket as a non German citizen. Biggest hurdle will be getting a Germany ticket machine to accept a regular credit card! But otherwise, isn't discriminating based on nationality for good and services illegal?
I had no problem paying with a credit card on Bahn.de ticket machines (White and red). The yellow BVG ones gave me problems in the past accepting an Argentine card, but it’s likely it’d take it now that it has a chip.
Re: 9-Euro-Ticket
#147Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!” These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich) If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every…
> If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good
A few days ago Deutsche Bahn has started to label some trains with an RE number (e.g. running Norddeich-Bremen or Stuttgart-Singen) with "9-Euro-ticket not valid".
Re: 9-Euro-Ticket
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it would be a violation of EU law to restrict it.
No it wouldn't. You could say it's only for citizens of EU member states. That's a restriction that wouldn't violate any EU law.
Another hypothetical alternative which wouldn't violate EU law (not that they have any reason of using it) would be to make the ticket only valid to people who legally reside in Germany, regardless of their nationality.
Re: 9-Euro-Ticket
#149Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!” These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich) If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every…
Our Dutch Scouts of age 15-17 also plan their own camps and do so on a shoestring budget, and it turns out that yes you can get from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic with all your camping gear using only like fifteen different German regional trains :-)
Especially for traveling across Germany, this ticket isn't quite useful, however I feel like it is marketed as "free traveling across Germany for a month" which isn't really the case. Am wondering how everything will play out next couple of months.
Re: 9-Euro-Ticket
#150Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!” These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich) If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every…
> If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good A few days ago Deutsche Bahn has started to label some trains with an RE number (e.g. running Norddeich-Bremen or Stuttgart-Singen) with "9-Euro-ticket not valid".
That seems to defeat the point. Any idea why they’d do that?