{"id":4941,"date":"2018-11-30T07:17:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/rail-fares-to-rise-by-3-1-in-january\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T07:17:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:17:35","slug":"rail-fares-to-rise-by-3-1-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/rail-fares-to-rise-by-3-1-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail fares to rise by 3.1% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Commuters\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/7B60\/production\/_104548513_railfares.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 3.1% more for rail tickets from 2 January. <\/p>\n<p>The increase, which is slightly higher than the 2.9% rise for this year, means another \u00a3100 on the cost of season tickets for many commuters.<\/p>\n<p>The rise, announced by industry body the Rail Delivery Group comes after a year of timetable chaos, strikes, and delays on some parts of the network.<\/p>\n<p>The increase affects about 40% of fares, including season tickets.<\/p>\n<p>The rise is regulated by the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments and is predominantly capped at July&#8217;s RPI figure, which was 3.2%.<\/p>\n<p>There had been calls for prices to be frozen following chaos caused by the implementation of new timetables in May.<\/p>\n<p>Fewer than half (45%) of passengers are satisfied with the value for money of train tickets, according to a survey by watchdog Transport Focus. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46387030\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 3.1% more for rail tickets from 2 January. The increase, which is slightly higher than the 2.9% rise for this year, means another \u00a3100 on the cost of season tickets for many commuters. The rise, announced by industry body the Rail &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}