There is a discussion underway here in the Frankfurt-Wiesbaden area over starting a 365 Euro-365 Day transport ticket.
A couple of areas around Germany have opened up to the experimental program, which requires some funding by the federal government, in order to work.
The basic deal? You would go in and start a card-ticket. You could travel within that 'zone' all year, free of extra cost, on any bus, tram, or train, for the 365 Euro involved.
How much money would the region 'lose' going this way and not charging the normal ticket price? They figure around 190-million Euro. So that's the amount that the federal government would have to cover.
A permanent thing? No one is really saying that. They are simply hoping to convince more people to leave their car home, and use the transport system.
If the federal government doesn't cough up the money? Well, it's hard to see how this would work.
Personally, I think they could make it a 730 Euro-365 Day transport ticket (double the price) and you'd get the same number of people.
The one odd question may later center on how big this 'zone' will be. They may decide that you are limited to just 10 km. So the idea of taking a bus from village, onto a station in Wiesbaden, and then to Frankfurt....probably won't work with this ticket.
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