I'm a simple emigrant and I travel by public transport

In the previous post I wrote about a ticket that covers only a special area, and in this one I decided to tell you about regular tickets and their cost. The cheapest ticket available in Frankfurt costs €1.50 (~125 rubles) – it covers short trips: one metro stop or a couple of tram stops one way. The same ticket, but without limits, costs €2.75 (~230 rubles). In other words, riding two stops on the metro here costs more than the taxi ride from the airport to my home in Tyumen. If you know you’ll be going there and back, it’s worth buying an unlimited daily ticket for €5.35 (~450 rubles), a saving of as much as 0.15€, and all other trips become “free.” Those who don’t like single tickets can consider a weekly pass for €26.80 (~2250 rubles), a monthly one for €93 (~7770 rubles), or an annual one for €926 (~77325 rubles) – the amount seems huge, but the two-month savings are obvious. Plus with such tickets you can bring one friend with you for free every day after seven p.m. and on weekends and holidays. And if arriving at work a bit later isn’t a problem, there are passes for €74 (~6180 rubles) and €741 (~61877 rubles) respectively; they are valid from 9 a.m. and noticeably save the budget. With prices this high (even by local standards) there are no conductors on public transport, there are no turnstiles at the entrances to the subway, people are trusted here to pay on their word. However, ticket inspectors operate on all lines; whether you get caught during a trip or not is a matter of luck. I got my first fine in December 2018 on a holiday weekend in Munich. There, tickets still need to be stamped at the entrance, and I didn’t know this and simply showed a small ticket; the inspector didn’t care at all about any of my “reasonable” excuses and he just slapped me with a €60 fine. At that moment it seemed like an unbelievable amount to me, but everyone immediately sobered up, and I paid it right there on the spot. Have you ever ridden without paying a fare? 😁 #frankfurt