{"id":559,"date":"2014-11-25T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2014-11-25T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:24:14","slug":"taxi-fares-on-rise-across-ireland-paddy-compare-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/taxi-fares-on-rise-across-ireland-paddy-compare-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi fares on rise across Ireland &#8211; Paddy Compare News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransport.ie\/taxi-and-bus-licensing\/taxi\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Transport Authority<\/a> (NTA) chairman, Mr John Fitzgerald just announced that he expects there to be an increase in taxi fares across Ireland. Taxi fares are reviewed every two years by the Authority and changes are based on the industry and finding the balance between doing what is right for the public taxi users and taxi drivers alike. The proposed changes will see the standard minimum fare reduced to \u20ac3.60, however fares for longer distances will increase and result in an overall increase in fare of approximately 4%. For more information on the increase in fares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransport.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SPSV_Newsletter_November_2014_Issue_27_WEB_FILE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a taxi driver in Dublin or anywhere in Ireland, then you will need <a href=\"\/taxi-insurance\" target=\"_blank\">taxi insurance<\/a> cover to operate your service legally on the roads. At Paddy Compare we understand that you want to find the best deal on your taxi insurance. Simply complete our <a href=\"\/taxi-insurance\" target=\"_blank\">taxi insurance quote<\/a> form and you can compare prices from taxi brokers from across the country in seconds. Get <a href=\"\/taxi-insurance-quote-form\" target=\"_blank\">cheap taxi insurance<\/a> at Paddy Compare today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Proposed-taxi-fares-Nov-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-564\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Proposed-taxi-fares-Nov-2014-300x128.png\" alt=\"Proposed taxi fares Nov 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Proposed-taxi-fares-Nov-2014-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Proposed-taxi-fares-Nov-2014-1024x438.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Proposed-taxi-fares-Nov-2014-624x267.png 624w, https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Proposed-taxi-fares-Nov-2014.png 1868w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Transport Authority (NTA) chairman, Mr John Fitzgerald just announced that he expects there to be an increase in taxi fares across Ireland. Taxi fares are reviewed every two years by the Authority and changes are based on the industry and finding the balance between doing what is right for the public taxi users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}