{"id":52236,"date":"2014-01-24T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/52236\/potholes-cause-problemsordangerous-potholes-cause-problems\/"},"modified":"2014-01-24T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T12:32:11","slug":"potholes-cause-problemsordangerous-potholes-cause-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/01\/24\/potholes-cause-problemsordangerous-potholes-cause-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous potholes cause problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large potholes are causing problems for motorists at the corner of Linton Jones and Brammer roads.<\/p>\n<p>Kobus Swanepoel brought the matter to the attention of the GCN.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He said: &#8220;The potholes at this corner are not only dangerous for drivers on the road, but can also cause a lot of damage to people&#8217;s vehicles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He told the GCN that he had contacted the metro a number of times, but that nothing had been done about the matter.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The metro was asked for comment on the matter and Themba Gadebe, from the department of communications and brand management, said: &#8220;The potholes at the corner of Lynton Jones and Brammer roads will be repaired within the next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must emphasise that we rely on the public to inform us when they spot potholes.&#8221;<\/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='0d83bd4e3361cf5a060dfd4258171105'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potholes cause problems for local residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":52279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[1003,979,1143,1588,1002,1004,2669],"class_list":["post-52236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-lake","tag-lake","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-potholes"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","Germiston Lake","lake","metro","municipality","potholes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52236","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=52236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}