{"id":353143,"date":"2026-01-05T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353143\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:12:09","slug":"tamar-crossing-charges-critical-for-commuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353143\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamar crossing charges &#8216;critical&#8217; for commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gelderd is one of three Labour MPs calling for a rethink and said constituents told her &#8220;this is critical&#8221; for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proposal came seven months after toll fees went up to plug a hole in finances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The committee said it proposed the changes as it needed to maintain a &#8220;prudent reserve&#8221; of \u00a33m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaigners said the crossing was crucial for people who cross the river for work, education and appointments at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The committee told the MPs it rejected other options including reducing the TSG discount, increasing the toll or reducing the number of ferries or toll booths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gelderd is one of three Labour MPs calling for a rethink and said constituents told her &#8220;this is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-353143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}