{"id":49079,"date":"2013-11-21T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/49079\/residents-worried-by-barbara-road-speedstersorhow-can-barbara-road-be-made-safer\/"},"modified":"2013-11-21T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T07:55:22","slug":"residents-worried-by-barbara-road-speedstersorhow-can-barbara-road-be-made-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/11\/21\/residents-worried-by-barbara-road-speedstersorhow-can-barbara-road-be-made-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents worried by Barbara Road speedsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Road, in Germiston has become a major concern to residents.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two days alone the GCN has received four calls to report how dangerous the road has become.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The main concerns for residents are the high speeds at which many people travel along the road and the high number of accidents.<\/p>\n<p>The question for many is: how can Barbara Road be made safer for all who travel along it?<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Speed bumps?<\/p>\n<p>An increase in effort by the EMPD?<\/p>\n<p>The GCN made contact with the EMPD, to bring the residents&#8217; concerns to light.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate this problem being brought to our attention, the EMPD views the residents&#8217; allegations\/concerns in a serious light.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The complaints have been forwarded to the precinct commander of the region, for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The outcome of this investigation will guide us on what action to take,&#8221; said Vusi Mabanga, media liaison officer for the EMPD.<\/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='f819f4ad5ee255b25df6d5418b8f9f6a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can Barbara Road be made safer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":49083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1696,1012,1003,988,979],"class_list":["post-49079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-concerns","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-empd","tag-germiston"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","concerns","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","empd","germiston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49079","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=49079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}