duesselmartin
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In theory a Mobib Card might do but I would not advice to use anything the conductor might not be familiar with. They tend to be sub contractors and often not well trained.
Another example of how rubbish the VRR is. It appears not to be included as they are defining the "VRR-Gebiet" to be what is shown on the map (official sources contradict eachother between "VRR-Verbundram" and "VRR-Verbundtarifraum", with some stuff being only in the later vv). If you ask the VRR and/or Keolis and/or Abellio, you are very likely to get at least a number of different answers larger than 2 (one of them will be no, one of them will be yes and one of them might be yes, but only in special circumstances).Is travel to the Netherlands excluded from the free travel offer? The map
https://www.vrr.de/de/tickets-tarife/ticketuebersicht/freie-fahrt-am-geburtstag/
doesn't show the Arnhem and Nijmegen zones where you can normally use VRR tickets.
Thank you for posting this. I am somewhat reassured that there are not too many Waben in each Gebiet.vrr.de/psf is a helpful website for calculating ticket zones, and here https://www.vrr.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/service/downloads/tarifhandbuch/Anlage_3d_Wabenplan.pdf you can find a (very bad) Waben (honeycombe) map.
Thank you. Would you agree that for a journey from Gelsenkirchen to Bochum with the above ticket, you would be obliged to travel via Essen, as the ticket wouldn't be valid across the 26/36 border?It's not quite as simple: A 24h B ticket starting in Mülheim would allow to make all journies in all directions that are a B fare from Mülheim, not plainly two zones... check the table I linked earlier.
The zones are: Bochum, Bottrop/Gladbeck, Dinslaken/Voerde, Düsseldor Mitte/Nord, Duiburg Mitte/Süd, Duisburg Nord, Essen Mitte/Nord, Essen Süd, Gelsenkirchen, Hattingen/Sprockhövel, Herne, Krefeld, Mettmann/Wülfrath, Moers, Oberhausen, Ratingen/Heiligenhaus, Rheinberg and Velbert.
Which words? I would be happy to amend my posts to make it less confusing for future readersYou use the wrong and thus confusing words.
I have just looked at the 19 new "C" regions hereTo replicate the same validity with 24h C tickets (price €25.30) you would need to get 3 of them.
In my eyes the ticket should be valid, as it is valid in both of 26 and 36. It's zonal in the sense that when you have found out the zones it's valid for, you can make unlimited journies within the zones, without the borders between them being relevant (again, for singles or weekly tickets (and upwards) the rules are different, but for day tickets this interpretation *should* be the correct one, but the VRR is always good for having ambigous rules).Thank you. Would you agree that for a journey from Gelsenkirchen to Bochum with the above ticket, you would be obliged to travel via Essen, as the ticket wouldn't be valid across the 26/36 border?