{"id":10000,"date":"2013-09-05T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10000"},"modified":"2013-09-05T08:31:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:31:19","slug":"power-cuts-cause-road-chaos-in-and-around-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10000","title":{"rendered":"Power cuts cause road chaos in and around Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cars-held-up-in-a-traffic-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10001\" alt=\"Cars-held-up-in-a-traffic-006\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cars-held-up-in-a-traffic-006-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cars-held-up-in-a-traffic-006-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cars-held-up-in-a-traffic-006.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Traffic was affected by power outages on the West Rand and parts of northern Johannesburg on Thursday morning, Johannesburg metro police department (JMPD) said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are experiencing power outages in the West Rand: Roodepoort, Florida, Constantia Kloof. Also, as well as in Rosebank, and along William Nicol in the Fourways area,&#8221; said Inspector Edna Mamonyane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Traffic lights usually fail during power outages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We advise motorists to please be patient and respect one another as we know that people are going to be edgy and late for work,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;JMPD and the Outsurance points people are going to do the best they can under the circumstances but unfortunately will not be able to cover each and every affected intersection.&#8221; &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic was affected by power outages on the West Rand and parts of northern Johannesburg on Thursday morning, Johannesburg metro police department (JMPD) said. &#8220;We are experiencing power outages in the West Rand: Roodepoort, Florida, Constantia Kloof. Also, as well as in Rosebank, and along William Nicol in the Fourways area,&#8221; said Inspector Edna Mamonyane. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Power cuts cause road chaos in and around Johannesburg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5832,1233,239,5831,5830,5834,5833,5835],"class_list":["post-10000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cuts","tag-fourways","tag-johannesburg","tag-outages","tag-power","tag-roodepoort","tag-traffic","tag-william-nicol"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cars-held-up-in-a-traffic-006.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10002,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions\/10002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}