Sentence examples for fares from inspiring English sources

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: "We are investing in the biggest rail modernisation since the Victorian era and fares have a crucial role to play in funding these improvements.

According to the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT), the cost of a Milton Keynes season ticket has risen 23.5%, or £930, since January 2010 and is one of a number of fares that have increased around four times more than average wages over this five-year period.

EasyJet (easyjet.com) will start a daily service from Gatwick on 18 March with fares from £47.49 one way.

Trade unions were at King's Cross station on Friday to give commuters special tickets showing how rail fares have risen.

According to TUC figures, UK commuters spend more than twice as much of their salary on rail fares than some European passengers.

Londoners had the chance to vote for a fares cut under Ken Livingstone and they voted for Johnson instead.

Four years earlier Boris made a similar promise to "fight" for lower fares in London, which he complained were "three times the price of the European average".

It comes days after rail fares for season ticket holders rose by an average of 4.2%, and ticket prices by 3.9% overall, and prompted warnings that passengers had already suffered enough pain from 10 years of inflation-busting rises.

The report from Transport for the North – the new body of combined authorities – proposes cutting journey times with high-speed railways, new road connections, and Oyster-style smartcards and simpler fares throughout the region.

Since then, Ferry company CalMac (calmac.co.uk) has scrapped all charges for bikes and reduced its fares, making the trip even cheaper.

Instead they declare enthusiasms such as curbside paper collection, library reorganisation and concessionary bus fares.