#49 Euro Ticket

[kajaono]

Deutschland Ticket, a moodbaord

Und bei euch so?

[unfug-bilder]

Digitalisierung a la FDP

Ich will Wissing gar nicht unterstellen, dass er diese Probleme kannte und deshalb auf die digitale Form gedrängt hat. Das ist alles viel zu komplex für ihn. Und es interessiert ihn nicht.

Hauptsache, er kann sich mit dem "ersten digitalen Ticket" schmücken.

[khaladriel]

Meine Pläne für 2023 so far...

SPAASS, ich nehme natürlich auch den Liefers- hoffentlich erscheint er dann diesmal auch.

Am glücklichsten macht mich, dass ich das alles mit Marie (@rheingoldweg12a ) erleben darf- ICH FREU' MICH SO DOLL!

P.S.: Das sind nebenbei nur die ersten ZWEI Monate von 2023!!!

It's gonna be A WILD RIDE!

[politikwatch]

#49EuroTicket #Preiserhöhung 🤬 Ab 1.1.25 #Monatspreis von mindestens 64 Euro 😱🤬

Und Tschüss nicht mit mir #volkerwissing #bundeskanzler

[unfug-bilder]

Zentrale Erfassungsstelle für das 49-€-Ticket. Danke FDP!

[asexualannoyance]

whose decision was this???

from this article

[caressthosecheekbones]

"Klimafreundlich, unkompliziert und günstig mit Bus und Bahn unterwegs sein – das bedeutet das 49-Euro-Ticket für Millionen Menschen in Deutschland. Doch damit könnte bald Schluss sein. Verkehrsminister Volker Wissing (FDP) will für das Erfolgsprojekt die nötigen Finanzmittel nicht mehr bereitstellen. Mach ihm jetzt klar: Das 49-Euro-Ticket muss bleiben!"

Hey Leute, habt ihr zwei Minuten? Dann unterzeichnet doch bitte eben kurz. 🙏😁 Dankeschöön!!

[superconfusedcoryn]

BUHHH

[strugglingclassicist]

For the price of the stupid monthly public transport student-ticket in my city one could get access to a monthly ticket for all the trains in Germany

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

In case anyone thinks this is a purely American problem, I present to you: private transport in Germany.

Most Germans agree, it is simplest and more affordable to just take a car if you have to travel any kind of distance. They (say they) love the Autobahn, which in theory and in several areas has no official speed limit. Except in the rightmost lane, where all delivery-type trucks are limited to 100 kmh during the day. (The same as roads outside city limits countrywide.) All other lanes are for overtaking, but no one told the owners of most drivers with a German brand car and/or a professional incentive to do at least 240 kmh, so those drivers are permanently in the leftmost lane. The middle lane is for anyone not filling that 140kmh minimum gap. Weather conditions have to be apocalyptic to change anyone's mind on these speeds.

If you believe most German brand car owners, this doesn't matter, because there's a limit of 120 kmh "everywhere" and the government ruined the German driving experience. My experience is different, but I drive a car that doesn't bankrupt me the second the check engine light goes on, so let's assume they are right and the de facto speed limit of this European safe haven of car culture in 120 kmh on the Autobahn.

Let's say I want to travel from Berlin to Hamburg, two cities connected by Autobahn with minimal changes, in a car, on this fine Thursday evening after most businesses are closed, but before the 10pm mark where trucks can floor it.

Hmm. Ah. I'm using Google Maps for my route planning, which is notoriously... optimistic about travel times in Germany. If you can reach these speeds, you are doing the speed limit where there is one, and at least 150 kmh or more where there isn't. But that math does not seem to be mathing. Maybe it's a distance issue?

Let's say I got flashed doing 150 kmh on a 120 kmh limited stretch on my way to Hamburg, because the one place car culture and anti car culture overlap is in the credo of ACAB. I now have a ticket I need to contest in the city of Flensburg, because that's where Germany punishes drivers. It's a pain to get to from most German cities (probably by design) but not too far from Hamburg. Still, morning traffic around a major city is hell, so let's just drive there right now, after nine pm.

Oops. To anyone wondering, the speed limit around road works on the Autobahn is 80 kmh. And, yes, I have congestion info turned on for these screen shots, so if those two road works were considerably impacting traffic flow or duration, Google would be upset right now. The highway is empty.

But as many people are clamoring, the issue with this approach is that I am travelling from and/or to a MAJOR MAJOR city! Everyone knows the speed limit inside those is 30kmh, max! THAT is what is eating up all the precious speed! PEDESTRIANS. At half ten at night. On a weekday. In the 5 or so kilometers on each side where I am not on a highway.

So let's downsize. Let's say I am leaving from Gera, a town big enough to have an Autobahn running straight through it, but small enough to get blank stares from most tourists. I wanna do some tourist watching, so I decide to spend my Thursday evening driving to a touristy place. Nothing too far, so I can still get home before the weekend crowd ruins the roads. Someplace with decent Autobahn access without excessive 30kmh zones. Someplace with a Lego Store. Nuremberg.

We have yet to hit an average of the 100kmh that trucks limit themselves to during business hours in any of the examples here. And, yes, even the people who love their cars scary much DETEST this aspect of driving in Germany. There's regularly people who "race" their ETA and manage to shave off maybe one or two minutes per 100 kmh.

I don't travel significantly faster by car in Germany than I do when I travel in, say, Belgium, which has a legal highway speed limit of 120kmh, or even than I do in the Netherlands, which has a daytime highway speed limit of 100kmh. I'm just more likely to be T-boned by a dickhead in an Audi while driving on a straight road.

That's alright, you might say. Germany has great public transit. And that is true... Provided you are in a large city, or travelling between large cities on a very expensive high speed ICE. You can also get a monthly ticket for all local public transit in the country for the low, low price of 49 euros... As a monthly subscription. Which, yes, you can cancel monthly, provided you remember. It's not extremely popular (though still far more popular than any conservative politician or Germany's privatized rail network likes), because it does not allow the middle class access to the more comfortable intercity trains, and it's 5-10% per person for someone making what is considered a low wage. (This is very much by design.) And if you get it, you get to figure out every city's individual bus, train, tram and subway system, which is broadly the same but delightfully different depending on where you are, what you look like and what mood the driver is in.

Feel free to compare public travel times from Hamburg to Berlin and Gera to Nuremberg. The latter does not have a viable high speed connection the way the former does. Note how suddenly that great public transit, rather than being more or less a 1-on-1 swap for a car, is barely twice as fast as a fairly in-shape human being pedaling a bicycle along one of Germany's hillier regions with notoriously few bike paths. Maybe there's a nighttime break in there--except that should be a two hour journey, and the German rail system, based on the first screen shots, obviously has the option to run trains beyond 11 pm.

It's almost like even the fairly straight highways, even when travelling between pretty direct exits, were not laid out to be the most efficient connection between cities. Or having an absolute minority of the population driving like gas is free and death has GTA-level consequences discourages the effective use of public infrastructure by all other road users. Or maybe pricing people out of using public transit and then using that "unpopularity" as a reason to not maintain, streamline or extend the public transit network puts more cars on the road and enforces a de facto speed limit in the supposed bastion of car culture on an entire continent, creating a situation where the speed demons are unhappy because they can't go fast and the alternative to getting there and back from anywhere 2 hours away by car is an entire day on public transit or a weekend cycling trip.

Making the roads more car friendly isn't possible. It'd be wildly expensive to build and maintain, require destroying protected nature, seizing private property of both individuals and economically signficant corporations, and the net improvement would be neligble. Or you'd have to privatize roads, which is such an unpopular idea that even car brands don't want it happening.

Improving public transit, after decades of a conservative government and the national mantra of it being natural to love your car more than your spouse (I wish I was kidding), is not popular enough in politics to gain any meaningful traction at the moment.

And despite this entire, screen-destroying rant, Germany is still internationally praised for both its excellent public transit and excellent road network.

The anti-car culture on this website is so fucking annoying. Like, sorry I want to be able to get around without having to spend two hours taking three buses. Sorry I want to be able to go grocery shopping in the winter without having to lug heavy bags home through the snow on a fucking bike

[unfug-bilder]

Wer regelmäßig oder schon länger gelegentlich bei mir mitliest, hatte auch schon Gelegenheit, sich eine Meinung zu meiner Kompetenz in Verkehrsfragen zu bilden.

Und auch ich sage: Wissing blockiert massiv. Ob im Auftrag von Lindner (der das ganze Ticket nicht will) oder aus Ignoranz, kann ich allerdings nicht beurteilen. Wahrscheinlich ist wohl beides zusammen.

[bauerntanz]

Ab 2025: 58 Euro

Das Deutschlandticket ab 2025: 58 Euro. Wofür Geld da ist und wofür nicht.

Jürgen Trittin twittert: “Unter Federführung von NRW wird das Deutschland-Ticket kaputtgemacht. Mehr Geld gibt es nicht. Die Preissteigerung werden kaum die Kosten der Kündigungen wettmachen. Aber weniger Menschen nutzen den ÖPNV Übrigens Geld ist genug da:”

[politikwatch]

- #9EuroTicket genutzt von 52 Millionen Menschen

- #49EuroTicket genutzt von 11 Millionen Menschen

- wenn Ticket nochmal teurer: genutzt von 500.000 Menschen der Rest fährt wieder #Auto!!

[coffeenewstom]

49-Euro-Ticket-Tours: Kufstein - Cafe Moccador

Kaum zu glauben, dass dieses Kaffeehaus in einem modernen Einkaufscenter zu finden ist. Die Rede ist vom Moccador im Inntalcenter Kufstein. Dabei ist es dem Einrichter gelungen den traditionellen Kaffeehaus-Charme exakt zu treffen: Lederbänke, Kaffeehaustische und viel Holz. Ein weiterer, lichter Raum mit Glasdach schließt sich als eine Art Wintergarten an. Es gibt für jeden den richtigen…