Mobilis: Zone 11 not covered in Travelcard

afeyzi

I’m writing this on S41 train, heading to La Conversion. We are going to a friend with wife my. Here is the situation, we both have half-fare tickets and also 3-zones 12-30-33 monthly subscription. Because we are commuting every day from Morges to EPFL. At this moment, we are going from Morges where is in 30th zone and La Conversion where is in 12th zone. We used IR15 train (17:26) to S41. Here is the situation: officer gave us a ticket because the next stop Lausanne is not covered zones in our subscription. Is this ticket legal or not? How can we get penalty while passing through?

RolandP

Hello afeyzi

The ticket inspector is correct: a missing zome results in a CHF 70 surcharge for a partially valid ticket.

The ticket must include all zones you are passing through.

Kind regards,
Roland

Tafunge25

I assume you mean by ‘we both have half-fare tickets’ that you have the Halbtax. Or what exactly do you have? (Just a Halbtax on its own is not a valid ticket, it actually just makes other tickets cheaper. Because you have a monthly pass, that doesn’t matter for this case.) The monthly pass allows you to travel within the zones 30, 33 and 12. You took a train which passes by zone 11, which is not covered by the monthly pass, so it is correct that you were fined. It does not matter that you wanted to go to a destination in zone 12. To pass through the zone 11, which is not included in your montly pass, you need an extension ticket (Billet de proplongation) covering zone 11.

Danhiel

Tafunge25 you need an extension ticket (Billet de prolongation) covering zone 11.

A small correction: the right name is “Billet de raccordement”.

afeyzi

I think this information should be specifically given somewhere noone can miss because of the outlying situation of zone 12. Additionally, I would definitely buy the ticket if I knew; We are always using the extension ticket for Allaman some weekends. I’m really upset about this.
Thank you for enlightening me guys.

RolandP

Hello afeyzi

Please reach out to Mobilis if you wish a better communication. Mobilis is the local fare network and responsible for ticket sales and marketing.

https://www.mobilis-vaud.ch/en/contact/

Kind regards,
Roland

RedBaron

afeyzi
The concept of one or several ‘suburban’ zones surrounding a ‘city center’ zone (so you’ll need the city center covered in your ticket if travelling through it) is actually not THAT uncommon in regional fare networks;
In Switzerland, you’ll find such concentric zones also e.g. around Berne, Lugano or Locarno, or abroad in cities like e.g. Paris, Stuttgart or Munich.
Zurich chose a different approach with one large single zone covering both city center and most suburbs, but costing twice as much as the other zones further away.