{"id":63862,"date":"2014-07-13T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/63862\/why-does-the-metro-take-so-long-to-respond\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:54:45","slug":"why-does-the-metro-take-so-long-to-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/13\/why-does-the-metro-take-so-long-to-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does the metro take so long to respond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City News received a call from a concerned resident, who wishes to remain unnamed.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that there was a burst water pipe in Chapman Road, in the Germiston CBD.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I have called the metro to report the burst pipe several times, and still nothing has been done to repair it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why the metro takes so long to respond to reports of this nature.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro in an attempt to find answers.<\/p>\n<p>Themba Gadebe, of the metro&#8217;s department of communications and brand management, informed us that &#8220;a team has been dispatched to the site to do repairs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There was no mention of why the metro took so long to respond to the matter.<\/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='9dd50221016e7524a7882e5ec3913d56'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident doesn&#8217;t understand why the metro takes so long to respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":63943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[3872,8297,3945,1012,1003,979,2730,1002,1004,1698,3946,2781],"class_list":["post-63862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-answers","tag-community-2","tag-complaints","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-repairs-2","tag-reports","tag-why"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["answers","community","complaints","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","repairs","reports","why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63862","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=63862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}