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 about regular tickets and their prices. The cheapest ticket available in Frankfurt costs €1.50 (~125 RUB) – it covers short trips: one stop on the metro or a couple of stops on the tram one way. The same ticket, but with no limits, costs €2.75 (~230 RUB). That is, 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 need to go there and back, it’s worth buying an unlimited daily ticket for €5.35 (~450 RUB), a savings of as much as 15 cents, and all other trips become 'free'. Those for whom single tickets don’t fit can look at a weekly pass for €26.80 (~2250 RUB), a monthly one for €93 (~7770 RUB) or an annual one for €926 (~77325 RUB) – the amount seems huge, but the two-month savings are evident right away. The plus of such tickets is that every day after seven in the evening and on weekends and holidays you can bring one friend for free. And if not essential to come to work early, then passes for €74 (~6180 RUB) and €741 (~61877 RUB) euros respectively are available; they start at 9 a.m. and significantly save the budget. With such high prices (even by local standards) there are no conductors in public transport, there are no turnstiles at the entrances to the metro, people here are trusted on their word. However, 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 you still need to stamp/validate tickets at the entrance, and I didn’t know this and simply showed a small ticket; the inspector didn’t care about any of my so-called "valid" reasons and he just fined me €60. At that moment it seemed like an unbelievable amount to me, but everyone sobered up at once, and I paid it right there. Have you ever been caught riding without paying a fare? 😁 #frankfurt