Wild - that gets me barely a days worth of tube travel in london (6.5 EUR a day)
Hamburg Sbahn/Ubahn are the same price, ~6.50€ for the daily ticket.
The 9€ ticket is a no-brainer!
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#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
[citation needed] ... I'm not putting it above DB to do that, but that really sounds like more trouble than it's worth: endless hassle with passengers who think that the ticket is valid in all regional trains (which has been repeated endlessly in the media for the last month, and also on the page we are commenting on), need to adapt the route planner to exclude these trains (an option "only regional trains" is alread…
Just search for any Norddeich-Bremen connection in the affected three months on the DB route planner with "only local transport" ticked and you will see the label on every second train. Well, after clicking "Show more information" and carefully reading the grey on white text. Edit: I tried in English and the warning didn't show up... Hopefully this link works as an example: https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/traininfo…
It seems that both IC train number and RE line number appear for these kinds of trains, so for savvy passengers it is possible to recognise such connections. Allowing local travel in selected IC trains is pretty interesting, though.
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#304Very 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…
> This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR/liter fuel
It's also for people normally using public transport.
There's a city in northern Germany where a ticket for one day public transportation costs nearly 9€.
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#305These are going to be wild chaos days.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/chaosta...
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your math is off by 50%. A gallon is 3.785 litres, and the euro is roughly $1.05. So 2 euros per litre = one gallon costs $8.
It’s above $6/gallon here in the bar area even for the cheapest gas so the prices are not that different.
This is partly because California law requires special gas that not all refineries produce.
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#307I'm sure the private bus operators, who usually are the only cheap option to travel in Germany, are just thrilled by this additional market distortion.
on one hand, free travel for millions of citizens, on the other, higher profitability for a handful private bus operators. Its surprising to me that someone would even consider bringing this up as a valid counter argument. Interesting to see how deeply Neoliberalism has seeped into western culture.
What does a temporary reprieve help if it threatens to destroy the outlook in long term? That strikes me as a uniquely short sighted pov. I am not surprised though, given your usage of the word "neoliberal" in that way. I am certainly not a "neoliberal", because that's just a soft form of socialism. I am a laissez faire capitalist.
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
*US liquid gallon A US liquid gallon is defined as 3.785411784 liters, the US dry gallon is 4.40488377086 liters, while the imperial gallon is 4.54609 liters. And that's just the currently used definitions... If I ask Google for "1 gallon in liters", it assumes Imperial gallons which would account for a good chunk of the error.
To be fair, even google gets this wrong sometimes - "1 gallon in gallons" = 1.2: https://www.google.com/search?q=1+gallon+in+gallons
This seems to be localised, for me it highlights 3,78 litres
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#309This is a really good initiative! I wish the Canadian government would encourage more efficient transport instead of cars.
This is a great idea for the US as well, if only we had a significant mass transit infrastructure that this could apply to.
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#310This is fantastic. Despite the warnings to not count on it, these local trains generally will transport your bicycle. So you can go for a bike ride some distance from your home location (or from your home location and return by train if you don't feel like riding back). Practically for free.