{"id":3338,"date":"2018-10-03T08:28:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndac.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:28:33","slug":"severn-bridge-tolls-to-end-17th-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/severn-bridge-tolls-to-end-17th-december-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Severn Bridge tolls to end 17th December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ndac.co.uk\/news\/images_news\/gen_images\/severn_bridge_650.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"255\" alt=\"Severn Bridge\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/business\/business-news\/tolls-severn-bridges-go-before-15224890\">Wales Online<\/a> has revealed that the historic date the Severn Bridge tolls will end is the <strong>17th December 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns, has confirmed that the tolls on the two Severn bridges will be  abolished just in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Conservative Party&#8217;s annual conference in Birmingham, Mr Cairns described the scrapping of the tolls as an &quot;early Christmas present.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>This will end 50 years of tolls since the first Severn Bridge opened and will save commuters who use the two Severn bridges daily up to \u00a31,400 a year in tolls.<\/p>\n<p>This will be fantastic news to regular visitors to the National Diving &amp; Activity Centre from over the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The historic date the Severn Bridge tolls will end is the 17th December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns, has confirmed that the tolls on the two Severn bridges will be abolished just in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Conservative Party&#8217;s annual conference in Birmingham, Mr Cairns described the scrapping of the tolls as an &#8220;early Christmas present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This will end 50 years of tolls since the first Severn Bridge opened and will save commuters who use the two Severn bridges daily up to \u00a31,400 a year in tolls.<\/p>\n<p>This will be fantastic news to regular visitors to the National Diving &#038; Activity Centre from over the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1767,1766,1765],"tags":[2532,2534,1739,2535,2530,2533,2537,2536,2531,1769,1770,2282,1771,2529,2528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}