I agree with Mark on this one. They might have shorter trains but almost every train is packed. If anything they should be running longer trains as the overcrowding has to be driving custom away.
If I had to guess, the price increase is because they have commuters over a barrel and can get away with it. The reality for me is that I have no choice and so have to cough up. I had to buy a monthly pass for cash a couple of months back and when I did the numbers it was 10 euro cheaper than buying day returns for each of the days I was travelling.
A 2% increase sounds about right - that's still 4 times the CPI. I had an 11% increase last year and if this is correct, they'll be having another 6% this year. That will be close to a 25% increase over three years when general inflation has been less than 5%.
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