{"id":132730,"date":"2016-09-09T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132730\/germistons-cbd-is-looking-appalling\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:02:10","slug":"germistons-cbd-is-looking-appalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2016\/09\/09\/germistons-cbd-is-looking-appalling\/","title":{"rendered":"Germiston\u2019s CBD is looking appalling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bob Law, Germiston writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recently sent some pictures to my son in Australia, showing the huge gouges and deep crevices in Germiston\u2019s streets and roads, making it impossible for emergency services to get through to crisis areas etc.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Destroyed and dilapidated buildings, rubble strewn across the streets, homeless people, illegal aliens and poverty all around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere these scenes from war-torn Syria, or maybe the aftermath of the Italian earthquake or even the destruction of the Japanese tsunami?\u201d he asked.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d I replied, \u201cIt\u2019s the CBD of Germiston.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who are the people responsible for this gross lack of planning and foresight?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bad enough to put up with the taxis and other drivers, who ignore the basic rules of the road, or at least the rules of the piece of road you can still drive on, but to be subjected to this kind of mismanagement is totally unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The council is spending millions on a new theatre complex (the old library) can I ask how anyone is going to get to it and be able to park anywhere near it?<\/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='6e2a579ca0af3b4b7111fde556d716d3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local resident says something should be done about the disaster area called a CBD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":132767,"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":[1410,1003,12235,1131,969,2734,1005,1002,1004,5576],"class_list":["post-132730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-cbd","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-fix-up","tag-germiston-cbd","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-mess","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-trenches"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["cbd","Ekurhuleni","fix up","Germiston CBD","germiston city news","melissa hart","mess","metro","municipality","trenches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132730","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=132730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}