{"id":694,"date":"2019-08-14T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:00:17","slug":"fares-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/14\/fares-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Fares Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had a pleasant day out with my daughter in Carlisle, sampling the delights of the direct service to and from Morpeth. But on the way I got a call from ITV Tyne Tees News who wanted to interview me about next January\u2019s fares increases based on the recently published inflation figures. So I did the interview outside Carlisle station, commenting that rail fares increases had a disproportionate affect in the North, where salaries are on average significantly lower, and for those on the minimum wage or the dreaded zero-hour contracts, the high cost of getting to work was pulling against the objective of the government\u2019s benefit reforms designed to \u201cmake work pay\u201d in all cases. Finally I pointed out that Morpeth and Cramlington passengers must also factor in the recently introduced car parking charges. The interview was broadcast that evening at 6 pm and repeated at 10:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had a pleasant day out with my daughter in Carlisle, sampling the delights of the direct service to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","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\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}