<story><title>Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y</title><url>https://www.klimaticket.at/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>Next stop: Just make public transport free for all reasonably permanent residents (for example, you could get a free ticket for next year when you file your taxes).&lt;p&gt;Anyone who rides public transport instead of expensive and polluting cars is doing a service for the environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>If you go that far, why stop there? What&amp;#x27;s the reason to have all the expenses and effort of fare collection if you&amp;#x27;re only going to collect fares from the occasional users of the system and not the daily users?&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re going to make it free for all residents, you might as well just make it free for everyone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y</title><url>https://www.klimaticket.at/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>Next stop: Just make public transport free for all reasonably permanent residents (for example, you could get a free ticket for next year when you file your taxes).&lt;p&gt;Anyone who rides public transport instead of expensive and polluting cars is doing a service for the environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bakuninsbart</author><text>Here in Berlin the idea floating around is to make yearly tickets very cheap (365€), while keeping prices for single travel (2.80€) or daily tickets (9.50€) more expensive. That&amp;#x27;s probably the easiest, least bureaucratic route to go.&lt;p&gt;For poorer households, the yearly ticket will still be subsidized, but the public transport companies (fully owned by the state) will still have direct income to maintain a corporate-like structure.</text></comment>