[karmakurtisaani]

> However public transport isn't even close to being free. I fact it is quite expensive in addition to being heavily tax supported.

Oh boy is it expensive, in particular to the poor foreigners visiting without the half-price card. And for some reason if you're in the know, you can buy all-day whole country covering travel passes for 50 something chf. Something that the foreigners can never get without insider help.

There's absolutely no way it's ever going to be cheaper, the best one can hope is that the prices don't go up very fast. Still, it's cheaper than having a car somehow.

[sschueller]

The prices can not go up too fast as their are price controls on how much it can go up (Preisüberwachung). However that doesn't protect against outside inflation which does make it even more expensive for tourists.