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After being hit hard by the pandemic, Swiss Rail is looking for ways to encourage greater use of its network. This week it announced a new kind of pass that should be available towards the end of 2023, reported 20 Minutes.
The “Public transport credit” pass or “Credit TP” pass will allow travellers to buy travel credit at a discount. The SwissPass Alliance, a public transport ticketing platform, has been trialing the idea since November 2021. It has been offering two different passes. One offers CHF 3,000 of credit for CHF 2,000 and the other offers CHF 1,000 of credit for CHF 800. The pass can be used in combination with a half price card.
Any unspent value at the end of a year is refunded. The refund amount is the difference between the amount of credit consumed and the amount paid for the pass.
SwissPass Alliance says there is no pass filling the gap between an annual pass (CHF 3,860 2nd class) and a half-price pass (CHF 185) and hopes the Credit TP will fill this gap. The pass should be available towards the end of 2023 when train timetables are updated.
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This new offer from SBB is a poor joke. The Swiss trains run empty most of the time because it’s far less expensive for poorer people to take a cheap car that they own. I know this well, I’m a poorer person who’s done the math. There are so many times that I would prefer to take the public trains but simply cannot afford to. We are a family of four and live in the Valais. There are many times we would prefer to travel to Lausanne or Genève by train. Having to pay full price, as we do not have the half-off-pass (we don’t use the trains regularly) is so expensive we would be foolish to do it. As it stands the Swiss train system is really only economically useful for people who work in cities and have a daily commute to work. For those of us who live and work rurally the trains make no sense. While driving my family along the autoroute I see the trains pass by empty. What a waste. Germany has made an affordable train pass for German citizens to be able to travel more on trains and it’s working. The Swiss trains are run by a public-sector mindset, so they have no good business sense and this lousy offer shows it.
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