{"id":16683,"date":"2016-07-10T13:49:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16683"},"modified":"2016-07-10T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T12:49:39","slug":"imminent-bus-cuts-will-make-some-elderly-more-isolated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16683","title":{"rendered":"Imminent Bus Cuts will make elderly feel more isolated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16071101.jpg\" alt=\"Bus Cuts \" \/><br \/>\nThe Oxfordshire County Council cuts to the town&#8217;s subsidised bus services will happen in the next two weeks. This will make it more difficult for elderly people, without their own transport, to get into town and to the community hospital. Most effected are villages, and areas in North Abingdon away from the Oxford Road. I was approached by one elderly person yesterday in town who felt very angry about the cuts, and said that they, and others they know, will feel more isolated.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16071102.jpg\" alt=\"Bus Cuts \" \/><br \/>\nCutting bus subsidies is being done because of cuts to local government finances imposed by central government with the aim of having a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2016\/jul\/01\/george-osborne-scraps-2020-budget-surplus-plan\">budget surplus by 2020<\/a>, a target that the chancellor of the exchequer has had to abandon after the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxfordshire County Council cuts to the town&#8217;s subsidised bus services will happen in the next two weeks. This will make it more difficult for elderly people, without their own transport, to get into town and to the community hospital. Most effected are villages, and areas in North Abingdon away from the Oxford Road. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}