{"id":65488,"date":"2014-07-31T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/65488\/metro-closes-dangerous-manhole\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T07:36:03","slug":"metro-closes-dangerous-manhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/31\/metro-closes-dangerous-manhole\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro takes steps to prevent manhole cover theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GCN recently reported on yet another dangerous open manhole in the suburbs of Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>This manhole was found on the pavement in Northridge Avenue, in Sunnyridge.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The manhole is approximately 3m deep and has fast running water at the bottom of it,&#8221; James Towell explained, adding that the cover has been missing for about three months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been trying to have it closed.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I take it on myself to check that no person or animal has fallen into this clearly dangerous hole each day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The GCN reported the matter to the metro and the sewer manhole cover has since been replaced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was replaced with a lockable ductile cover, to prevent similar incidents in the near further,&#8221; said Themba Gadebe, from the metro&#8217;s department of communications and brand management.<\/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='f22278136dc31866db3c2202a8255807'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro closes dangerous manhole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":65489,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,2730,4150,1002,1004,4151],"class_list":["post-65488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-manhole-cover","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-theft-prevention"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","manhole cover","metro","municipality","theft prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65488","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=65488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}