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Re:Germany’s ultra-cheap train ticket saved 1.8M tons of CO2 by kioleanu on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:11AM (#32676445)
To be fair it’s expensive to use with monthly tickets also. I saw an interesting discussion today on /r/de with people having to ride 1 to 3 stops and having to pay 90 to 120 euros per month.

You have to be in a very privileged position to receive affordable tickets. I am lucky to work for a huge employer that offers a JobTicket which costs me 69 euros and they also subsidize half of that. Who doesn’t work at a company that has JobTickets can buy the same for 220 euros per month

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Re:Germany’s ultra-cheap train ticket saved 1.8M tons of CO2 by iggldiggl on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:34AM (#32676850)
> people having to ride 1 to 3 stops and having to pay 90 to 120 euros per month.

Stops aren't really a good measure of distances. Three stops by a regular all-shacks city bus? Three stops by rapid transit-type rail? Three stops on a semi-fast regional train? Three stops by long distance-express train? Those different modes of transport all result in massively differing distances as measured in kilometres (and also time).

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Re:Germany’s ultra-cheap train ticket saved 1.8M tons of CO2 by chkal on Thursday September 01, 2022 @12:44PM (#32679096)
I'm commuting about 50km to work and pay about 170€ per month. Tickets are quite expensive here.
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Re:Germany’s ultra-cheap train ticket saved 1.8M tons of CO2 by qikInNdOutReply on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:44AM (#32678087)
It really feels like a socialist state run company, were the customer is just a nuissance. They want to deal with companys, large entitys, the transported person is more of a afterthougth.
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