Germany To Relaunch Cheap Travel Pass
From January 2023, residents will be able to get unlimited public transport in the country for just €49 per month.
At the start of this year, Germany’s government introduced monthly tickets for near-unlimited public transport usage that cost just €9 (£7.86, £8.80)in order to promote sustainable travel and help out with the cost of living crisis. The scheme ended in August but in the months since, the German government has been working on a follow-up. And that successor has now been announced: from January 2023, regional transport across Germany will cost just €49 (£43, $48) per month.
Of course, compared to the €9 ticket, the new ‘Deutschlandticket’ might sound expensive – but it still works out really, really cheap. For example, if you wanted to get a cheap train ticket from Berlin to Hamburg today, using only local trains, it’d cost you at least €35 (£31, $34). With the new pass, you’ll be able to do as many of those journeys as you want for under €2 (£1.75, £1.96) per day.
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The new pass is expected to have similar criteria to the €9 ticket in that it’ll be available to visitors but won’t cover high-speed Inter-City Express (ICE) trains. The €49 ticket will be available to buy as part of a monthly subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Germany states this scheme will be an effort to cut CO2 emissions and help out Germans with the cost of living crisis. In June, July and August, a whopping 50 million €9 passes were sold, covering one billion trips every month and saving 1.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
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