{"id":48916,"date":"2019-04-07T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T10:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48916"},"modified":"2019-04-07T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T10:57:52","slug":"uber-adds-1-on-journeys-in-londons-congestion-charge-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uber-adds-1-on-journeys-in-londons-congestion-charge-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber adds \u00a31 on journeys in London\u2019s congestion charge zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7472\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Uber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"449\" \/>Uber will add an additional pound to the cost of journeys in central London from next week after the city\u2019s transport authority said private hire taxi operators will no longer be exempt from the congestion charge.<br \/>\nMost drivers entering London\u2019s central zone, spanning King\u2019s Cross in the north, the City in the east, the Imperial War Museum in the south and Buckingham Palace in the west, pay 11.50 pounds ($15) Monday to Friday during the day.<br \/>\nPrivate hire firms had been exempt from the charge but regulator Transport for London (TfL) is seeking to cut the number of vehicles on the British capital city\u2019s roads, which has surged partly due to burgeoning taxi apps.<br \/>\nTfL said in December that private hire taxi operators such as Uber and Addison Lee would have to pay the levy from April 8.<br \/>\n\u201cTo help ease the impact on driver earnings, Uber trips that start, finish or pass within that Zone will include a 1-pound Central London Fee,\u201d said Uber.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uber-adds-1-on-journeys-in-londons-congestion-charge-zone\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber will add an additional pound to the cost of journeys in central London from next week after the city\u2019s transport authority said private hire taxi operators will no longer be exempt from the congestion charge. Most drivers entering London\u2019s central zone, spanning King\u2019s Cross in the north, the City in the east, the Imperial &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48917,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916\/revisions\/48917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}