{"id":67084,"date":"2014-08-22T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/67084\/da-calls-for-metro-to-fix-dangerous-sinkhole\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T09:35:04","slug":"da-calls-for-metro-to-fix-dangerous-sinkhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/22\/da-calls-for-metro-to-fix-dangerous-sinkhole\/","title":{"rendered":"DA calls for metro to fix dangerous sinkhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DA wants the metro to immediately repair the sinkhole on Second Avenue, in Marlands, to prevent possible harm to motorists and pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>Repeated reports from the DA ward councillor and members of the community about the state of this road have fallen on deaf ears.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Had the metro&#8217;s roads department reacted swiftly and carried out the necessary repairs timeously it could have prevented the major expense now required to fix this sinkhole,&#8221; said Tania Campbell, Ward 21 councillor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the DA was running the metro, problems of this sort would be dealt with proactively and not reactively, as demonstrated by a particular sinkhole in Edenvale, that was repaired only after it caused a major accident.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It seems to us, in the DA, that the ANC generally and worryingly waits until all matters reach crisis point before they are addressed and, like this one, many issues have led to serious injury and even fatalities before action has been taken.&#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='a646a8ba0917365383de28e5ed481469'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fix the sinkhole before someone gets hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":67085,"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":[1148,1003,979,969,1662,2734,1002,1004,1743,4392],"class_list":["post-67084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-da","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-marlands","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-roads","tag-sinkhole"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["DA","Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","Marlands","melissa hart","metro","municipality","roads","sinkhole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67084","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=67084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}