{"id":146509,"date":"2017-03-10T07:43:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=146509"},"modified":"2017-03-10T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T07:20:47","slug":"breaking-traffic-chaos-taxis-block-r24-near-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/10\/breaking-traffic-chaos-taxis-block-r24-near-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Traffic chaos as taxis block R24 near airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting metered taxi drivers are blocking the R24 east, causing major delays for motorists travelling towards OR Tambo International Airport this morning (Friday), the <a href=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/143526\/breaking-traffic-chaos-taxis-block-r24-near-airport\/\">Kempton Express <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to use alternative routes.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking to eNCA this morning, metro police spokesman, Kobeli Mokheseng, said the metro police, police and other services were closely monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p>He said the drivers blocked a section of the R24 at the Barbara Road off-ramp travelling towards the airport. Traffic in the opposite direction is slow moving.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>There are also reports that the R21 south had been blocked at the Engen garage near Tembisa.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed they are protesting against the Uber taxi service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-146508\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/03\/meter2-Custom-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/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='e8f62128f77604382402671040d83289'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed they are protesting against the Uber taxi service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":146506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,988,1106,979,969,9206,2730,999,13895,13896,998,1508],"class_list":["post-146509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-empd","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-highway","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-r24","tag-r24-highway","tag-saps","tag-traffic"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","empd","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","highway","Leigh Hodgson","police","R24","R24 highway","SAPS","traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146509","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}