{"id":46792,"date":"2022-10-28T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46792"},"modified":"2022-10-28T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T19:07:08","slug":"supertram-fares-to-be-capped-at-2-from-1st-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46792","title":{"rendered":"Supertram fares to be capped at \u00a32 from 1st November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally when we run a story on fare changes it includes the words \u201cincrease\u201d but this time we can report on the introduction of a \u00a32 fare cap on all tram and bus services in South Yorkshire as from 1<sup>st<\/sup> November. This is part of Oliver Coppard\u2019s, the Mayor of South Yorkshire, bold plan to tackle the cost of living crisis and comes over two months ahead of national \u00a32 cap on bus journeys due to be introduced between January and March 2023.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the name suggests this initiative will see fares capped at a maximum of \u00a32 \u2013 any fare which is currently below this level will be unaffected and will not be increased to match. Although not clarified in the press release this relates to a single journey. The nationwide scheme, announced by the government earlier this year, is due to see bus fares capped between January and March 2023 but South Yorkshire are going further by introducing it from November and also including the trams too.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Coppard said: \u201cAs we head into winter, I know just how many people in South Yorkshire are worrying about feeding their families, heating their homes, and affording the very day to day basics as the cost of living continues to spiral. Public transport is part of the solution. That\u2019s why we\u2019re not just introducing the \u00a32 fare cap early here in South Yorkshire, we\u2019re extending it to include trams. Because while the Government\u2019s temporary fare cap is welcome, it doesn\u2019t go far enough to support the thousands of people in our region who rely on our buses and tram network. Alongside the Zoom Beyond fares at just 80p for young people, we now have some of the best public transport fares in the country. We have a broken public transport network here in South Yorkshire but bit by bit we\u2019re making things better for the travelling public. This is just another step on that journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fare capping will cost \u00a3600,000 and could see some passengers save up to 50% on journeys and reduce the cost of over 700,000 journeys that currently cost more than \u00a32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally when we run a story on fare changes it includes the words \u201cincrease\u201d but this time we can report on the introduction of a \u00a32 fare cap on all tram and bus services in South Yorkshire as from 1st &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46792\">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":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46792"}],"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=46792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46793,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46792\/revisions\/46793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}