L’associazione dell’industria dei trasporti pubblici prevede di abolire la Halbtax/demi-tarif

How many of the people who came up with this obscenely stupid idea failed upwards from SNCF and DB ?

> Die neuen Billettpreise will die Branche im Laufe des nächsten Jahres festlegen. Sie sollen über dem Halbtaxtarif, aber unter dem heutigen Volltarif liegen. Laut Alliance-Swiss­pass-Geschäftsfüh­rer Helmut Eichhorn hat das einen Vorteil: «Wenn der normale Billettpreis tief genug ist, lässt ein Autofahrer sein Auto eher einmal stehen und nimmt den Zug.»

> Aber: Teurer dürfte es für alle werden, die immer wieder Zug fahren und heute den Kaufpreis des Halbtaxabos wieder hereinholen. Für die 170 Franken muss man heute im Laufe eines Jahres bloss Tickets über 340 Franken lösen, um das Abo gegenüber den vollen Billettpreisen herauszuschlagen.

Sooo milk the people that actually depend on public transport for daily life so you can offer lower prices for people that MIGHT use it. And of course, they don’t actually plan on getting any increased revenue. Right.

Pro: Simplification especially when traveling across tariff zones.

Con: More spontaneous usage. Less predictable demand. More underused or overfilled trains and buses.

A better source, from a month ago: [https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/espresso/projekt-my-ride-radikale-vereinfachung-des-oev-ticket-systems-soll-2027-kommen](https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/espresso/projekt-my-ride-radikale-vereinfachung-des-oev-ticket-systems-soll-2027-kommen)

TL;DR:

* Change should be revenue-neutral for the whole system
* A new base price will be somewhere between the current Halbtax and the current full fare
* For high users, a “distance” discount based on total distance used in a month wil apply, the futher the distance, the higher the discount

Essentially, you don’t have to think if a Halbtax is worth or not *before* using public transit. Simply using public transit more will automatically trigger the discounts.

To me this is good news. I currently got a halbtax, but only because I got it for half of the price. Probably I will not extend it for full price.

If someone is using public transport very often I think they will go for a GA anyway.

Without the Halbtax, the ticket prices are completely ridiculous and out of line with alternative transport options. So for any regular public transport user, the Halbtax (or GA) is a must.

Abolishing the half-fare and replacing it with e.g. a 75% fare would effectively just increasing the ticket price for the majority of users with 50%. This would just push people into cars and clog up the roads even more.

Plans to double prices on 90% of the population.