{"id":1925,"date":"2007-11-12T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T08:22:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-11-12T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T08:22:03","slug":"gautrain-website-a-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/1925-gautrain-website-a-big-hit.html","title":{"rendered":"Gautrain website a big hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launched two weeks ago by the Bombela Consortium, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mytrain.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyTrain website<\/a> has already had more than 15000 hits.<\/p>\n<p>The website was created by Bombela Consortium, builders of the R25-billion Gautrain rapid-rail system linking Johannesburg and Pretoria, to encourage children to pursue careers in engineering and related fields, and to provide information about the Gautrain project, said Gautrain spokesman Barbara Jensen, <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are absolutely delighted with the response we are getting on the website.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The picture-and-graphics-driven website contains video clips, route maps, station sites and photographs of the Gautrain, as well as step-by-step information on how things are done.<\/p>\n<p>Said Jensen: &ldquo;The interest in the website is proof that we cannot do enough to satisfy the interest of people about the Gautrain. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What is also heart-warming is to see people taking ownership of the Gautrain &mdash; one of the main objectives of the youth site, which is called MyTrain.co.za.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>She said the site had received many encouraging messages. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the comments we received said: &lsquo;It is so wonderful to see a project like the Gautrain happening. It truly makes me proud to be a South African and I can&rsquo;t wait for what the future of South Africa holds.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;Congrats to everyone working on the project &#8230; it looks like it&rsquo;s going to be awesome!&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An innovative website that encourages children to pursue careers in engineering is proving to be a major hit with young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}