{"id":118780,"date":"2016-04-20T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118780\/who-is-responsible-for-street-light-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T07:20:04","slug":"who-is-responsible-for-street-light-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2016\/04\/20\/who-is-responsible-for-street-light-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is responsible for street light maintenance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Primrose resident writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am concerned that the street lights in Rietfontein Road, in Primrose, are not working.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I believe that the lack of lighting in the area could result in an increase of crime in the area.<\/p>\n<p>I reported the matter to the metro but still nothing has been done to fix the street lights.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Who is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the street lights in Germiston?<\/p>\n<p>When can we expect the issue to be resolved?<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: \u201cThe reported street lights in Primrose have been fixed and are now functional,\u201d said Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro.<\/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='3b365e216bae197049d30534b690c6a2'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident concern that lack of lighting in Rietfontein Road will lead to an increase in crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":92699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,18,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-118780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118780","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=118780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}