{"id":37455,"date":"2014-01-02T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ba6fb64c9f2be2e59a76e5756bc20855"},"modified":"2014-01-02T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T11:26:00","slug":"news-story-rail-fare-rises-lowest-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37455","title":{"rendered":"News story: Rail fare rises lowest in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Rail Minister Stephen Hammond said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The government understands concerns rail passengers have about the costs of fares and the impact they have on household budgets. That is why, for the first time in a decade, regulated fares will not rise on average by more than the rate of inflation, offering relief for families and the hard-working people.<\/p>\n<p>As well as protecting regulated fares, the government is driving forward the biggest programme of rail modernisation programmes ever, with \u00a338 billion being invested over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">That means new state-of-the-art trains, better stations and hundreds of miles of electrified track which will help cut journey times, provide better connections and stimulate growth across the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Breakdown of expenditure as compared to a rail passengers single pound.\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/20666\/rail-pound.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"related-document\">Related document<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the statement by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raildeliverygroup.com\/assets\/files\/2014\/01\/release.pdf\">Rail delivery Group regarding 2014 rail fares (PDF, 290KB)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1019\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Rail media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3108\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Public enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government driving biggest programme of rail modernisation ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37459,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37455\/revisions\/37459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}