Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
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Re: Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
#2(in Dutch)
Re: Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
#3In English: https://www.ns.nl/en/season-tickets/dal-vrij
Re: Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
#4That’s the introductory price. It’ll be €127,95 after that period is over. Kids travel for free, though, so that’s pretty nice.
In hindsight, I think I underestimated the value of my OV card while I was a student: travel whenever, using all types of public transport, for free.
Re: Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
#5Not for visitors AIUI. You need some kind of card only locals can get.
Re: Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
#6Only valid during the two summer months. It's a rather weak simile of the German Deutschlandticket (now 58 euro/month but valid all day on bus/tram/metro and local/regional trains, but not on long distance trains, in a much larger country).
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#7(in Dutch)
We've updated the URL to the English-language version that CalRobert submitted. We appreciate all languages and cultures but HN is an English-language site, so we always want the English version to be submitted here, thanks!
Re: Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
#8In English: https://www.ns.nl/en/season-tickets/dal-vrij
We updated the link, many thanks!
Re: Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
#9Nice pass. Would be perfect for my wife and I since we don't commute for work. There is something similar here in Switzerland but not as good.
Funny fact: there are cities here that have tried to make public transport free. But the constitution says public transport must have a "reasonable charge". It's obvious that law was created to not overcharge but the courts have ruled that it also means that there can't be no charge. So no free public transport.
Re: Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
#10Nice pass. Would be perfect for my wife and I since we don't commute for work. There is something similar here in Switzerland but not as good. Funny fact: there are cities here that have tried to make public transport free. But the constitution says public transport must have a "reasonable charge". It's obvious that law was created to not overcharge but the courts have ruled that it also means that there can't be no…
I wasn't aware of that fun fact - I always just assumed it was down to the "personal responsibility" mindset ("people must pay for what they use").
Have the courts also said anything about the charge being super low, e.g. like a CHF 1 per month abo or such? I wonder if that would be a way around those rulings.