{"id":582638,"date":"2022-05-03T16:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=582638"},"modified":"2022-05-03T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:34:56","slug":"tshwane-moves-to-repair-potholes-and-reduce-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/582638\/tshwane-moves-to-repair-potholes-and-reduce-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Tshwane moves to repair potholes and reduce backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Tshwane says it has invested R46 million to upgrade the Bon Accord quarry crusher plant in <span class=\"LrzXr\">Onderstepoort,<\/span> to operate optimally and <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">assist the municipality to produce and provide its own material for the building and maintenance of roads in the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Running our own crusher plant will assist Tshwane to accelerate repairing of potholes and reduce the current backlog,&#8221; said mayor Randall Williams on Tuesday (3 May). <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The refurbished plant will significantly assist us in increasing the production of hot asphalt so that we can ensure adequate maintenance of roads and pothole repairs across the city,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">[WATCH] The City invested R46 million to upgrade the asphalt plant to operate optimally. Running our own crusher plant will assist Tshwane to accelerate repairing of potholes and reduce the current backlog. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityTshwane?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CityTshwane<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1HJafALk6S\">pic.twitter.com\/1HJafALk6S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Randall Williams (@tshwane_mayor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tshwane_mayor\/status\/1521422810920357888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The city said it will no longer procure asphalt mix from external service providers to fix potholes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;With this plant, the city will produce its own road building and maintenance materials. The materials will be used further for the city to produce its own hot-mix asphalt, ready-mix concrete and build\/maintain tar roads,&#8221; it said.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Mayor Williams said that heavy rains had significantly damaged the roads in recent months, following heavy criticism from residents in all areas of the province. &#8220;We are pushing to reduce <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">potholes<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> in the city,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019ve been saying how <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityTshwane?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CityTshwane<\/a> does not take it\u2019s residents\u2019 pleas for service delivery seriously \ud83d\udc94\ud83d\udc94\ud83d\udc94 This is such a dangerous hazard for our community.<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS: Cnr. Talbot &amp; Coke street Westpark. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OKxYB25wY3\">pic.twitter.com\/OKxYB25wY3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udcdc\ud835\udcf6\ud835\udcea\ud835\udcdc\ud835\udcf7\ud835\udcf2\ud835\udcfc\ud835\udcf2 \ud83e\uddda\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@Potse__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Potse__\/status\/1519363301792260102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/581972\/here-is-the-official-petrol-price-for-may-and-its-bad-news-for-diesel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here is the official petrol price for May \u2013 and it\u2019s bad news for diesel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Tshwane says it has invested R46 million to upgrade the Bon Accord quarry crusher plant in Onderstepoort, to operate optimally, and assist the municipality to produce and provide its own material for the building and maintenance of roads in the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":582670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-582638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582638","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=582638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582682,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582638\/revisions\/582682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}