{"id":1237784,"date":"2022-10-29T06:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/29\/19-increase-in-transport-fares-takes-effect-today\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T06:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T06:23:06","slug":"19-increase-in-transport-fares-takes-effect-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/29\/19-increase-in-transport-fares-takes-effect-today\/","title":{"rendered":"19% increase in transport fares takes effect today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghanaians will from today, October 29, 2022, pay more for transport services as the 19% increase in fares announced by the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>The GPRTU announced the increase in fares earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The move, according to the union has been necessitated by the continuous soaring of prices of petroleum products at the various fuel pumps.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, diesel and petrol are selling for over GH\u00a218 and GH\u00a215 respectively at major fuel pumps; a situation transport operators say is eroding their profit.<\/p>\n<p>VIP JEOUN increased its fares by 20% on Monday, October 24.<\/p>\n<p>The fare from Accra- Kumasi which used to be GH\u00a285 is now GH\u00a2100, while Accra-Sunyani will now cost GH\u00a2130 cedis.<\/p>\n<p>Also, people moving from Accra to Tamale will have to pay GH\u00a2240 for VIP buses.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaians will from today, October 29, 2022, pay more for transport services as the 19% increase in fares announced by the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) takes effect. The GPRTU announced the increase in fares earlier in the week. The move, according to the union has been necessitated by the continuous soaring of prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1121,980,445,904,285,983],"class_list":["post-1237784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-effect","tag-fares","tag-increase","tag-takes","tag-today","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237784","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=1237784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}