{"id":2715,"date":"2013-01-05T19:37:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2013-01-05T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T19:37:17","slug":"metrolink-fares-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2715","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink fares rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As was reported late last year fares on Manchester Metrolink went up from Wednesday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> January 2013 by an average of 4.2% &#8211; making it four of our light rail systems (Docklands Light Railway, London Tramlink and Midland Metro have also seen rises) to put fares up as a new year begins. Although outline details had previously been announced by Transport for Greater Manchester no exact details of how the fares were raising had been revealed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is a mixed bag of fare changes for travellers on Metrolink as some have not been changed whilst others have increased by as much as 5.8%. TfGM have claimed that over half (51%!) of fares have actually remained as they were previously although this will be of little consolation to those people affected by the increases. In fact the 2013 fare rise is a lot smaller percentage wise than the last two increases with fares rising an average of 6.4% in 2012 and 6% in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of fare rises given in the <em>Manchester Evening News<\/em> include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peak return fares<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bury to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a35.90 (was \u00a35.60)<\/p>\n<p>Eccles\/MediaCityUK to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a33.70 (was \u00a33.50)<\/p>\n<p>Altrincham to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a36.20 (was \u00a36.00)<\/p>\n<p>St Werburgh\u2019s Road to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a33.70 (unchanged)<\/p>\n<p>Oldham Mumps to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a35.00 (was \u00a34.80)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annual season tickets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bury to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a3960 (was \u00a3930)<\/p>\n<p>Eccles\/MediaCityUK to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a3545 (was \u00a3530)<\/p>\n<p>Altrincham to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a3960 (was \u00a3950)<\/p>\n<p>St Werburgh\u2019s Road to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a3590 (unchanged)<\/p>\n<p>Oldham Mumps to City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a3800 (was \u00a3760)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As was reported late last year fares on Manchester Metrolink went up from Wednesday 2nd January 2013 by an average of 4.2% &#8211; making it four of our light rail systems (Docklands Light Railway, London Tramlink and Midland Metro have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2715\">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":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715"}],"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=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}