{"id":7637,"date":"2022-08-27T23:12:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/27\/community-transport-it-was-a-reason-to-get-up-in-the-morning\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T23:12:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T23:12:56","slug":"community-transport-it-was-a-reason-to-get-up-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=7637","title":{"rendered":"Community transport: \u2018It was a reason to get up in the morning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Community transport organisations in rural parts of Northern Ireland are being affected by rising fuel costs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">About 40% of people in Northern Ireland live in rural areas and many rely on community transport to allow them to leave their homes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">More than 100 volunteer drivers have left community transport in Northern Ireland since the beginning of this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">BBC News NI has spoken to elderly people in rural areas who have been affected as well as volunteers who have made the decision to leave because of fuel costs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video journalist: Niall McCracken<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-62665848?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Community transport organisations in rural parts of Northern Ireland are being affected by rising fuel costs. About 40% of people in Northern Ireland live in rural areas and many &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}