{"id":257069,"date":"2018-07-06T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=257069"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:56:21","slug":"work-begins-on-new-r260-million-johannesburg-interchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/257069\/work-begins-on-new-r260-million-johannesburg-interchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Work begins on new R260 million Johannesburg interchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Johannesburg has issued an advisory to residents, with construction on the Watt Street Interchange project scheduled to begin this month.<\/p>\n<p>The development forms part of the construction of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most affected stakeholders are along the Wynberg precinct, as a result of the road closing along the M11 Pretoria Main Road, from Arkwright Avenue to Thora Crescent Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To minimise the impact caused to the public, road users and pedestrians are urged to please be aware that traffic diversions will take place in this area from Thursday, 5 July 2018, with an anticipated construction period of 18 months,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The construction, which is estimated to cost approximately R260 million, will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The demolishing of the existing bridge and the interchange at Watt Street;<\/li>\n<li>The construction of the new east-west link from Rautenbach Avenue to Watt Street, an upgrade intersection on Pretoria Main Road;<\/li>\n<li>The construction of new BRT lanes and station<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The city said that the interchange forms\u00a0part of the Rea Vaya BRT System Phase 1C, which includes the section 8 trunk route from Sandton to Alexandra along Rivonia and Katherine Drives, and the section 15 trunk route from Parktown in Johannesburg to Alexandra along Louis Botha Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The city is confident that, through the project, residents along Pretoria Main Road and adjacent areas will have a safe commuting environment, less congestion, as well as a healthy lifestyle,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/229675\/gauteng-reveals-plans-for-massive-new-highway-the-first-since-the-1970s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gauteng reveals plans for massive new highway \u2013 the first since the 1970s<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Johannesburg has issued an advisory to residents, with construction on a new interchange project scheduled to begin this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2016,26],"class_list":["post-257069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-city-of-johannesburg","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257075,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257069\/revisions\/257075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}