{"id":741849,"date":"2024-01-12T07:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T05:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=741849"},"modified":"2024-01-12T07:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T05:10:54","slug":"the-city-of-joburgs-hefty-bill-to-fix-roads-hit-by-gas-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/741849\/the-city-of-joburgs-hefty-bill-to-fix-roads-hit-by-gas-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"The City of Joburg&#8217;s hefty bill to fix roads hit by gas explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Johannesburg, Africa\u2019s richest city, will spend R196 million rehabilitating a key road in its old central business district after a methane gas explosion in July.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city expects that repairs to Lillian Ngoyi Street, formerly known as Bree Street, will conclude by the end of the year, it said in a statement Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosion killed at least one person, injured about 48 others and caused extensive damage on adjacent streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funds will cover professional fees, roadworks, stormwater and services infrastructure, electrical, mechanical, and structural works, it said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city is also assessing other service tunnels throughout the municipality to prevent future incidents and expects to finalise designs for their upgrades in June before starting work in the next financial year, it added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-businesstech wp-block-embed-businesstech\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"o14St8MhYw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/705391\/disaster-in-joburg-as-gas-explosion-rocks-cbd\/\">Disaster in Joburg as explosion rocks CBD<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Disaster in Joburg as explosion rocks CBD&#8221; &#8212; BusinessTech\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/705391\/disaster-in-joburg-as-gas-explosion-rocks-cbd\/embed\/#?secret=7IqWkcHIbq#?secret=o14St8MhYw\" data-secret=\"o14St8MhYw\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/741435\/government-wants-the-private-sector-to-fix-up-its-broken-buildings\/\">Government wants the private sector to fix up its broken buildings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Johannesburg has estimated it will cost hundreds of millions to fix the roads damaged by the gas explosion last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":683275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1850,1995,853],"class_list":["post-741849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-bloomberg","tag-joburg","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741849","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741857,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741849\/revisions\/741857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}