{"id":4315,"date":"2011-07-28T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T12:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2011-07-28T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T12:58:10","slug":"can-a-train-company-survive-on-just-three-ticket-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/can-a-train-company-survive-on-just-three-ticket-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a train company survive on just three ticket prices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/money\/2011\/jul\/28\/chiltern-railways-simplified-fares\">This is more like it<\/a>. Chiltern Trains make a train fare system that&#8217;s understandable on the London-Birmingham run. \u00a375 absolutely any-time, \u00a350 if you hit London during peak hours, and \u00a325 if you can avoid Brum and London peak times. Plus \u00a35 on any fare for a London travel card. Simple.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll never catch on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is more like it. Chiltern Trains make a train fare system that&#8217;s understandable on the London-Birmingham run. \u00a375 absolutely any-time, \u00a350 if you hit London during peak hours, and \u00a325 if you can avoid Brum and London peak times. Plus \u00a35 on any fare for a London travel card. Simple. It&#8217;ll never catch on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[2815,2812,2813,2324,2814,2766,1081],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","tag-birmingham","tag-chiltern-trains","tag-fare","tag-london","tag-simple","tag-structure","tag-train","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-17B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}