Michael has written to the CEO of Southeastern Rail, Charles Horton, calling on the rail company to ensure their 2015 fare rises are within inflation. In 2014 the government reduced average fare rises to inflation for the first time in a decade, saving more than a quarter of a million annual season ticket holders an average of \u00a325 each.<\/p>\n
Michael said: \u201cMany commuters regularly contact my office or visit me at my advice surgeries to discuss their concerns about rail fares. Whilst they appreciate the help from the Government to reduce fares rises to inflation they also point out the role which rail companies must also play. Rail operators do not have to apply the maximum increase but can offset this through greater efficiency. \u00a0That is why today I have written to the CEO of Southeastern rail to ask him to reassure me and my constituents that any rail fare increases will be within inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Michael has written to the CEO of Southeastern Rail, Charles Horton, calling on the rail company to ensure their 2015 fare rises are within inflation. In 2014 the government reduced average fare rises to inflation for the first time in a decade, saving more than a quarter of a million annual season ticket holders an … Continue reading “Call To Keep 2015 Rail Fare Rises Within Inflation”<\/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":[14,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}