{"id":2435,"date":"2018-07-02T07:57:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T07:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2018-07-02T07:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T07:57:45","slug":"fallon-calls-for-better-thameslink-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Fallon Calls for Better Thameslink Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Chris Grayling<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My constituents continue to suffer appalling disruption with delays of 2-3 hours on their journeys to work now quite common. Trains are cancelled every day; those that do arrive are frequently late and over-crowded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Six weeks on from the start of a new timetable which was supposed to bring better services this is clearly unacceptable.\u00a0\u00a0 The government needs to demonstrate that it understands the frustration caused to so many travellers.\u00a0 Better compensation has already been announced for passengers in the Northern franchise area who will be receiving the cash equivalent of a four-week refund.\u00a0 \u00a0I would like you now to require Thameslink to\u00a0 introduce an equivalent scheme for my constituent as soon as \u00a0possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Fallon MP<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2344\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thameslink-logo.png\" alt=\"thameslink logo\" width=\"600\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thameslink-logo.png 600w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thameslink-logo-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Chris Grayling &nbsp; My constituents continue to suffer appalling disruption with delays of 2-3 hours on their journeys to work now quite common. Trains are cancelled every day; those that do arrive are frequently late and over-crowded. &nbsp; Six weeks on from the start of a new timetable which was supposed to bring better &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fallon Calls for Better Thameslink Compensation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[490,856,736,447,823],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}