{"id":1204048,"date":"2022-09-14T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T09:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/transport-fares-to-go-up-by-30-from-september-21\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T09:45:50","slug":"transport-fares-to-go-up-by-30-from-september-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/transport-fares-to-go-up-by-30-from-september-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport fares to go up by 30% from September 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Persons who patronise services of commercial vehicles will, from September 21, 2022, see at least a 30 percent upward adjustment in the fares they pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn consultation with our mother body the GPRTU OF TUC, we wish to announce to the general public that there will a 30% increment on fares starting September 21, 2022,\u201d a joint statement from the public transport unions announced.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was issued by the Concerned Drivers Association and True Drivers Union.<\/p>\n<p>The increase according to unions is \u201cDue to the increment in fuel products, spare parts and the poor management of the economy by the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectricity tariffs, water tariffs, prices of spare parts, prices of food and pure water prices have all increased, hence we have no option than to also increase our fares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the unions, because of the aforementioned issues, \u201cwe are unable to make enough money to cater for our family and pay off our loans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The transport unions thus pleaded for the cooperation of the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs stated earlier, we are urging the general public to cooperate with us on our new fares coming September 21, 2022\u201d, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Transport fares went up by 20 percent in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As of May 9, 2022, when the new fares took effect, petrol and diesel were selling at a national average of GH\u00a29.41 and GH\u00a211.12, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the price of petrol per litre has crossed GH\u00a211 and diesel sells for over GH\u00a214 per litre at most pumps.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persons who patronise services of commercial vehicles will, from September 21, 2022, see at least a 30 percent upward adjustment in the fares they pay. \u201cIn consultation with our mother body the GPRTU OF TUC, we wish to announce to the general public that there will a 30% increment on fares starting September 21, 2022,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}