{"id":289,"date":"2015-12-04T11:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T11:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2020-02-05T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:29:10","slug":"rail-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/04\/rail-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to talk on BBC Radio Newcastle&#8217;s Charlie &amp; Alfie programme this morning. Always good to be on the show, and this time in the studio too rather than a phone interview. The government says wages are going up by 2.4% but rail fares are only increasing by 1.1% so we&#8217;re better off. But I think the 2.4% increase in wages is a national average &#8211; probably much higher in London but lower than that here in the North East. So we have to pay the 1.1% increase in fares with salaries remaining level in most cases. Worse, the government hasn&#8217;t allowed for station parking charges introduced this year. \u00a32 per day at Morpeth on top of a return fare to Newcastle of \u00a36.30 is actually a 31% increase in the cost of getting to work. Nevertheless, unregulated fares such as the advance \u00a317.65 Morpeth to London single are an absolute bargain &#8211; though these fares are not regulated at operators can change or remove them as they wish. SENRUG wants a major simplification of the fares structure to make it easier to know what&#8217;s what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to talk on BBC Radio Newcastle&#8217;s Charlie &amp; Alfie programme this morning. Always good to be on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chairmans-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}