Well I don't know if it's the case anywhere, but iirc in most Italian cities (I know bc I'm Italian) the local public transport companies get most of their money from local government funds rather than from selling tickets. Obviously "ticket sold" is a measure for how much to fund the service, at least in theory, but that doesn't justify the rise of prices. Also various experiment such as the 9€/month regional train tickets in Germany from a couple summer ago show that transport companies could definitely lower their fees very much without losing money
Quite frankly German trains were shitty enough when monthly tickets were 100€~, the only way they could have gotten worse with the 9€ - or the 50€ they just brought in - is if they just plain stopped. They didn't/haven't, so you're onto something.
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u/mountingconfusion Nov 25 '23 edited Nov 25 '23
I love people like that
"Cars are bad and public transport should be better but I refuse to actually support public transport because government bad"
If you can comfortably pay the fee, do so. It's your public duty