Germany’s 9-Euro-Ticket experiment, explained – Vox
MUNICH, Germany — Maybe you buy the 9-Euro-Ticket to travel from Saxony to Bavaria to go to the Helene Fischer concert in Munich. Maybe you buy it to go hiking, taking the train on summer weekends to villages outside Munich. Or maybe you buy it because you’re an American journalist, but also a little bit of a tourist, used to paying $2.75 to wait 15 minutes for a crowded Brooklyn Q train, like me.
Because, really, why not buy it? For 9 euros a month for June, July, August, passengers could buy one ticket to travel…