In 2019, CTA rail was $2.85 and CTA Bus was $3.47 per trip for comparison
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Yeah Covid kind of screwed everything.
aug 28, 2025, 1:30 am • 6 0 • view
Covid took us from 2-3x Europe to 6x Europe.
aug 28, 2025, 1:56 am • 4 0 • view
I don’t trust that your Berlin figure is post-COVID inflation either.
aug 28, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
Berlin (like most of Europe) is back to ~100% pre covid ridership. 2024 actually had higher ridership than 2019.
aug 28, 2025, 2:41 am • 2 0 • view
Or did you mean literal monetary inflation? I will have to look up the exact numbers later.
aug 28, 2025, 2:42 am • 2 0 • view
The US needs a national transit pass like the Deutschlandticket
aug 28, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t think that D-ticket is the key here because France, Netherlands, etc all have the same recovery.
aug 28, 2025, 2:50 am • 3 0 • view
D ticket had only really had huge ridership effects on regional train services priced by DB directly (crossing state lines, holiday destinations) that used to be very expensive
aug 28, 2025, 7:30 am • 3 0 • view