{"id":10599,"date":"2023-07-05T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/05\/no-country-for-old-people-readers-on-losing-englands-rail-ticket-offices\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:37:14","slug":"no-country-for-old-people-readers-on-losing-englands-rail-ticket-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/05\/no-country-for-old-people-readers-on-losing-englands-rail-ticket-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No country for old people\u2019: readers on losing England\u2019s rail ticket offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five passengers discuss the impact of proposals to remove ticketing staff from almost all stations<\/p>\n<p>Rail firms have announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/jul\/05\/plans-for-mass-closure-of-railway-ticket-offices-in-england-confirmed\">plans to shut down almost all of England\u2019s remaining ticket offices<\/a> in an attempt to \u201cmodernise\u201d the railway.<\/p>\n<p>The move has angered unions and disability and passenger groups, who say it would affect the ability of some customers to travel independently.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/jul\/05\/rail-ticket-offices-england-closure-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7890ea6f0dfa0da8ca809b792a3daeeb50738ab4\/0_232_8021_4813\/master\/8021.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=139b88211b2c89cd92413085dafd228f\" title=\"\u2018No country for old people\u2019: readers on losing England\u2019s rail ticket offices\" \/>Five passengers discuss the impact of proposals to remove ticketing staff from almost all stations<br \/>\nRail firms have announced plans to shut down almost all of England\u2019s remaining ticket offices in an attempt to \u201cmodernise\u201d the railway.<br \/>\nThe move has angered unions and disability and passenger groups, who say it would affect the ability of some customers to travel independently. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five passengers discuss the impact of proposals to remove ticketing staff from almost all stations Rail firms have announced plans to shut down almost all of England\u2019s remaining ticket offices in an attempt to \u201cmodernise\u201d the railway. The move has angered unions and disability and passenger groups, who say it would affect the ability of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/05\/no-country-for-old-people-readers-on-losing-englands-rail-ticket-offices\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018No country for old people\u2019: readers on losing England\u2019s rail ticket offices<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}