This means more expensive tickets for those living on the outskirts of larger municipalities. For example, anyone who lives in Arkösund and wants to go to Norrköping and back, today pays SEK 75 for a daily ticket. With the new ticket system, that person gets to buy a county day ticket instead and it costs 150 SEK.
Both this new system and the old one will run in parallel until May 2020.
"Totally cranky"- It is quite cranky to do such a thing in these environmental thinking times, it just means that fewer will go by bus, says Ann-Christin Jansson, who lives at Vikbolandet in Norrköping municipality.
Östgötatrafiken's CEO Sofia Malander says that this is part of the strategy to link the whole county together:
- This is so when you change the price model, some get it more expensive and others get it cheaper.
More about the new ticket system in the video above.