{"id":112431,"date":"2016-02-02T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112431\/metro-blames-maintenance-backlog-for-delay\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T08:06:39","slug":"metro-blames-maintenance-backlog-for-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/02\/metro-blames-maintenance-backlog-for-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro blames maintenance backlog for delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water leaks continue to be a problem within Germiston, with residents becoming more and more frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>The latest complaint, from an anonymous resident, claims that though the leak at the corner of High and Plantation roads was reported in December 2015, it had still not been fixed in January of this year.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This, despite promises from the metro that the leak would be repaired.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro to find out what was causing the leak, why it was not repaired in December, when it was first reported, and why, despite numerous calls, it has still not been repaired?<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe leak was caused by a damaged water meter,\u201d said Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a delay in the response time for queries due to a maintenance backlog, but the complaint has been attended to and a new meter fitted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108463\/water-leaks-for-days-in-delville\/\" target=\"_blank\">Water leaks for days in Delville<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107851\/resident-shocked-at-service\/\">Resident shocked at service<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107324\/resident-reduced-to-asking-neighbours-for-water\/\">Resident reduced to asking neighbours for water<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107209\/residents-furious-over-reservoir-leak\/\">Residents furious over reservoir leak<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='56d7f2e7b70182e857fed675feb66713'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents tired of waiting for results from metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":112474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-112431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}