{"id":85440,"date":"2015-04-03T07:48:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T05:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=85440"},"modified":"2015-04-02T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T09:56:14","slug":"tree-growing-in-road-claims-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/03\/tree-growing-in-road-claims-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree growing in road claims resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City News has received a call from Andre Oberholzer, an Elsburg resident.<\/p>\n<p>He claims the metro came to Horak Street, Klipportjie, Elsburg, eight months ago to repair the road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>But instead of repairing the road they filled the holes with sand.<\/p>\n<p>This has results in plant life (such as trees) to sprout in the road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In addition claims that after this repair the street lights in the street have also begun to work intimately.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro on the matter and received the following reply from metro spokesman Themba Gadebe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Is the metro aware of this complaint?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does the metro have plans to repair the road?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality\u2019s Roads Department has already repaired the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Could the problem with the street lights be connected to the repair works?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No, there is no connection.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the metro able to get them working properly?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, the Metro\u2019s Energy Department has attended to the lights and fixed them.&#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='42d1f7d9babc400bb7b0e1e0de4d336d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro claims to have fixed the problem in Horak Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":85441,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1318,1106,979,969,7066,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-85440","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-elsburg","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-klipportjie","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","elsburg","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Klipportjie","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85440","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}