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It’s not odd. ÖBB domestic prices start at Buchs since for ticket (and operational) purposes it is the border station and ÖBB are the legal operator from there. My Klimaticket is also valid from Buchs onwards towards Vienna.

Nothing to do with employment rules. Not enough young people to replace the boomer generation currently going into the retirement, and that is true everywhere in Europe.

Everybody is finding it difficult, some countries are a bit further behind the curve. Talked to an ÖBB conductor last week doing rest day working (not something that is common in these parts) because they lack staff. No (major) cancellations as yet though, but Vienna trams already had to reduce...

Already exists once daily - through RJ-service (rjx 160-167).

For reduced passenger numbers certainly not. The Swiss are in for the long-haul and will certainly not downgrade their more or less national-wide half-hourly Takt. They might reduce or delay future expansion though, and/or shorten trains. There are only few lines where you could take certain...

That’s an easy one at the moment, because at the moment everything there is loco hauled, and it has existed in the past. The Paris - Zurich - Vienna mentioned in a previous post is not though, because no TGV has approval in Austria and - while that might be the easy part because there is...

As always, I think that the Swiss have got it mostly right. Their Generalabo costs about SFR 3800 a year for second class travel. Considering the Swiss price level is about double the Austrian one, a Klimaticket price of about EUR 1900 a year would seem about right for Austria, and that would...

The Austrian Klimaticket slashed my commuter costs by 50% and in addition gave me free travel in all of Austria (including RJ/IC etc) instead of just the city of Vienna and my regular rail line to work in a regional city close to Vienna. In this, I think all these schemes are misguided. I don’t...

1. As you can guess from my user name, I am not that far from Germany, so quite used to its ways, which are not so different from ours. 2. I find it completely justified that for such a remarkably (almost ridiculously) cheap ticket, which is hugely subsidized by the taxpayer, the Germans aim to...

I don’t agree at all. This is a tariff financed by German taxpayers for people living in Germany, and rolling-over makes it much, much easier to use - and I repeat, it can be cancelled at any time, without penalty, and (I am sure) electronically as well, if bought online. In any case, at least...

I cannot really see what is dishonest about it, especially as it seems you can cancel it monthly at no cost.

Yes.

Yes. And the TEE Edelweiss used to run Amsterdam - Brussels - Luxembourg- Strasbourg- Zurich.

In this case it’s probably rather due to being a Swiss restaurant car with Swiss staff and different staffing levels and service concepts.

There is! Read post #5 again.

Yes, the Swiss are quite advanced in this and I fully expect this system to expand to other places in Central Europe, completely skipping the step of contactless payment at (as yet mostly inexistent) ticket barriers. It offers the same benefits with no infrastructure costs.

Certainly the case here in Vienna, where the vast majority of passengers has a yearly pass at EUR 365,- Single tickets are comparatively expensive, but daily/weekly passes are easily amortized. I don’t think we will ever get contactless; just not worth the investment. I expect that at some...

Thanks, now I understand your point. Being able to buy a ticket on your phone at any time is a good substitute too, IMO.

As far as I am aware, no contactless in the German speaking countries either, and mostly no concrete plan to offer it. Which can be explained by the fact that we tend not to have ticket barriers in metro systems and no „tapping in/tapping out“, so the entire infrastructure would have to be...

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