Transportation in Linz

Linz is not a big city. There are only three tram lines and numerous buses routes. No subway. There are ticket vending machines at each tram stations. From these machines, you can buy three kinds of ticket:

Maxi: this is a one-day pass. With this pass, you can take tram and bus as many times as you want.

Midi: single ticket, only valid for one trip.

Mini: this is for short distance travel and is only valid withing four stops.

Wochen: weekly pass. This is most useful to tourists.

Other than buying tickets from vending machines, you can also go to shops called Tabak to buy tickets. There you can buy discounted and other kind of tickets.

To learn more about tickets and ticket price, please visit .

However you buy the ticket, you have to validate it yourself before taking a tram or a bus. It is easy. Just validate it at the machine, and the machine will print the date on the ticket.

I do not see anyone checking tickets during the whole trip. Obviously people respect themselves by paying correct fares. Also, there are no "gates" at the station. You can hop on the tram without buying any ticket. But I believe no one will do so.

Second day afternnon, we all buy weekly passes, validate them, hop on the tram and head towrd downtown area for our walking city tour.