{"id":1242012,"date":"2022-11-02T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/02\/passengers-fume-after-another-increase-in-transport-fares\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:27:10","slug":"passengers-fume-after-another-increase-in-transport-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/02\/passengers-fume-after-another-increase-in-transport-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers fume after another increase in transport fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Some passengers have been agitating after an overnight increase in transport fares brought on by the most recent increase in fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers in the Greater Accra Region on Wednesday morning adjusted their prices higher following the increment of fuel prices on November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Transport fares had been increased by 19 percent last week.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the price of diesel has shot up to over GH\u00a223 per litre while petrol is selling at almost GH\u00a218 per litre.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-891063\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Passengers-fume-after-another-increase-in-transport-fares-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-891062\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Passengers-fume-after-another-increase-in-transport-fares-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Citi News, some of the drivers at the Neoplan Station blamed the fare increment on the soaring petroleum prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not the driver\u2019s fault. It is not the passenger\u2019s fault\u2026 If the government can reduce the fuel prices, we will come back to the previous price because people are suffering,\u201d one driver said to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some passengers lamented the current situation saying life has become unbearable<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are just worried, and we don\u2019t know what we are going to do now\u2026 it is very bad. The government needs to do something about it. We are suffering,\u201d one passenger said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Monday, I paid GHS6 to Circle. This morning, I paid GHS7.5\u2026 the driver is even complaining that if he takes GHS100, he won\u2019t get a gallon of diesel to buy,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some passengers have been agitating after an overnight increase in transport fares brought on by the most recent increase in fuel prices. Drivers in the Greater Accra Region on Wednesday morning adjusted their prices higher following the increment of fuel prices on November 1. Transport fares had been increased by 19 percent last week. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242012","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\/1242012","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=1242012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}