{"id":9349,"date":"2021-01-17T07:27:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T07:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/transport\/article\/3118067\/hong-kong-could-raise-hk2-flat-fare-discounted-public"},"modified":"2021-01-17T07:27:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T07:27:09","slug":"hong-kong-could-raise-hk2-flat-fare-in-discounted-public-transport-scheme-benefiting-elderly-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/hong-kong-could-raise-hk2-flat-fare-in-discounted-public-transport-scheme-benefiting-elderly-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong could raise HK$2 flat fare in discounted public transport scheme benefiting elderly, disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong could raise the flat-rate fare of a discounted public transport scheme benefiting elderly and disabled people to reduce the government\u2019s financial burden, the city\u2019s welfare chief has said.The fare concession scheme currently allows those aged 65 and above, as well as disabled residents, to pay just HK$2 (US$0.26) per trip on designated public transport such as the MTR system, franchised buses, ferries and green minibuses.The scheme, launched in 2012, has recently been extended to\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/transport\/article\/3118067\/hong-kong-could-raise-hk2-flat-fare-discounted-public\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong could raise the flat-rate fare of a discounted public transport scheme benefiting elderly and disabled people to reduce the government\u2019s financial burden, the city\u2019s welfare chief has said.The fare concession scheme currently allows those age&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9364,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions\/9364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}