{"id":17374,"date":"2017-05-17T20:42:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T19:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17374"},"modified":"2017-05-17T20:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T19:42:16","slug":"fares-to-increase-in-blackpool-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17374","title":{"rendered":"Fares to increase in Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travelling on Blackpool\u2019s trams (and buses) will be more expensive from Sunday 28th May with revised fares being introduced as a result of an increase in operating and fuel costs. An extra 10p will be added to all single fares but any tickets purchased through the recently introduced app will not see any change nor will the 24 hour ticket available on board trams and buses.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The following adult single fares will be available on board the trams:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a31.70 (was \u00a31.60)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a32.20 (was \u00a32.10)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a32.70 (was \u00a32.60)<\/p>\n<p>Child fares will increase from \u00a31 to \u00a31.10.<\/p>\n<p>The onboard Saver 24 hour ticket will stay at \u00a35 for adults (\u00a32.50 for children and \u00a33 for a young person). Meanwhile the 1 day ticket available for purchase online, at Paypoint retailers and at the Blackpool Transport travel office on Market Street will increase to the same price (excluding the Young Person ticket which isn\u2019t available) meaning there is no longer any advantage to buying this ticket before boarding a tram or bus.<\/p>\n<p>There are further changes to ticket prices from Sunday 28th May which can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/images.blackpooltransport.com\/downloads\/Fares%20May%202017%20Web_1.pdf\">https:\/\/images.blackpooltransport.com\/downloads\/Fares%20May%202017%20Web_1.pdf<\/a> but no tickets purchased through the app will change.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Tram Tour fares will also remain unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelling on Blackpool\u2019s trams (and buses) will be more expensive from Sunday 28th May with revised fares being introduced as a result of an increase in operating and fuel costs. An extra 10p will be added to all single fares &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17375,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374\/revisions\/17375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}