{"id":612490,"date":"2026-04-18T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:56:12","slug":"drivers-walking-and-cycling-more-amid-rising-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612490\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers walking and cycling more amid rising fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-text\">It suggested this could include financial support to ease access to bikes and e-bikes, and boosting the safety of local roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Sarah Mitchell, chief executive of Cycling UK, said: \u201cPeople need to travel and they need to be able to do this affordably.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cThat includes alternatives to driving, particularly for those who simply won\u2019t be able to keep up with rising costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cIt protects people who would otherwise be exposed to rising fuel costs when a crisis like this hits, and allows people to continue making their everyday journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">A litre of petrol and diesel remains 25p and 49p respectively more expensive than when the war began on February 28, despite prices dipping slightly since Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It suggested this could include financial support to ease access to bikes and e-bikes, and boosting the safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-612490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}