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TurboTTC wrote: ↑02 Sep 2022 16:45
Seems like Germans had a energy crisis compensation made by their government: a ticket through the whole country costs less than $10.
No "seems" at all.
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It was the Nine-Euro-Ticket (9€ per month) that was available from June to August 2022. With that ticket one was able to use
all local and regional public transport services in the whole country.
TurboTTC wrote: ↑02 Sep 2022 16:45
But the Deutshe Bahn forgot to bring more trains on the rails so it was a big chaos and lots of bad publicity.
The Deutsche Bahn (and also the other railway companies) didn't "forget" to bring more trains on the rails. There was no more trains available within the short time from the idea to the implementation (around two months). Additionally the ticket was available only for
appointed traffic services (appointed by the regional and local authorities with an advance of a few years). It is not easy to bring more trains to such an appointed service.
In Germany only long-distance rail transport is completely in the hand of the railway companies and only there a company could decide to bring additional trains on the rails (if available) on their own.
That said, yes, there was "a big chaos and lots of bad publicity" in the beginning, because the ticket started at Whitsuntide, a weekend with traditionally a lot of traffic in the country. But after the three months the public reception is all over all
mainly positive.
TurboTTC wrote: ↑02 Sep 2022 16:45
Some people think it was never ment work, since the car manifacturer lobby wants public transportation to fail.
Even with such a big car manufactor lobby as Germany has, this is not true. This is not the USA in the nineteen thirties. The Nine-Euro-Ticket "experiment" – with all its problems – did not fail, even "some people" think so. Many other "some people" expresses their different, contrary opinion. It's a public, wide spread discussion about a successor for the Nine-Euro-Ticket, that should be available on a
permanent basis (against the German minister of finance).
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