{"id":60730,"date":"2016-12-01T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/60730\/more-delays-due-to-roadblock-on-n4-highway\/"},"modified":"2016-12-01T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T11:46:05","slug":"more-delays-due-to-roadblock-on-n4-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/12\/01\/more-delays-due-to-roadblock-on-n4-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"More delays due to roadblock on N4 highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have staged a road block on the N4 highway and are pulling off several vehicles &#8211; leading to more commotion at the Middelburg Toll Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this morning there was a power failure at the toll plaza which resulted in a backlog of about two kilometers on either side of the plaza.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote-solid\"><p>The problem was resolved at about 10:00 but just a couple hours later a road block on the N4 Highway resulted in additional delays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Solange Soares Nicholson, spokesperson at TRAC, said that the situation was beyind their control but that traffic was flowing &#8211; albeit at a slow pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have staged a road block on the N4 highway and are pulling off several vehicles &#8211; leading to more commotion at the Middelburg Toll Plaza. Earlier this morning there was a power failure at the toll plaza which resulted in a backlog of about two kilometers on either side of the plaza. The problem &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":60733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1548,972,6057,2564,6045,4648],"class_list":["post-60730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-n4-highway","tag-police","tag-road-block","tag-saps","tag-solange-soares-nicholson","tag-trac"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["N4 Highway","police","road block","SAPS","Solange Soares Nicholson","TRAC"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}