{"id":72568,"date":"2014-11-04T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72568\/street-lights-on-day-and-night\/"},"modified":"2014-11-04T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:05:27","slug":"street-lights-on-day-and-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/04\/street-lights-on-day-and-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Street lights on-day and night"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GCN received a call from concerned Elsburg resident Frans Dekker, about the lights in Yorke Street.<\/p>\n

“For about three consecutive weeks, the street lights have been on day and night without being switched off,” he said.<\/p>

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“This is a big concern as we are meant to be saving electricity as much as possible.”<\/p>\n

Dekker said he called the metro to try to eradicate the problem.<\/p>

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“I was told that the lights are on, day and night, because a cable was stolen and that they are working on it,” he explained.<\/p>\n

Soon after the call from Dekker, GCN contacted the metro about the street lights.<\/p>\n

“The complaint in question has been attended to and addressed,” said the senior media officer of the metro’s communications and brand management department, Lebogang Ramashala.<\/p>\n

Dekker also told the GCN journalist that the street light outside his house stopped working for about three weeks.<\/p>\n

“The metro came and fixed the light outside my house a day after I called the newspaper and I think two days later they returned to fix the street lights,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Although it took three weeks for the lights to be fixed I am glad that they eventually did it.”<\/p>\n

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