{"id":4133,"date":"2008-06-13T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-13T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T12:52:00","slug":"new-technology-for-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/4133-new-technology-for-roads.html","title":{"rendered":"New technology for roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roads and Transport MEC Thobile Mhlahlo told the Bhisho legislature on Thursday that the objective was to have 80% of the provincial network surfaced. Currently, 5102km of the network are surfaced and 38363km are gravel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have embraced a concept called alternative surfacing technologies which is cost-effective and seeks to stabilise regravelled roads and then seal the sub-base. In this way our roads will be better preserved,&rdquo; Mhlahlo said.<\/p>\n<p>The department&lsquo;s in-house roads construction and maintenance units had already begun identifying possible roads for surfacing.<\/p>\n<p>In certain areas they had already begun work after consultation with municipalities and transport forums.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first projects, said Mhlahlo, was the 3,2km road from the entrance of the Bhisho Airport to the police air wing site at the back of the airport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eastern Cape roads and transport department has started using new technology to upgrade the network of nearly 40000 kilometres of gravel roads under its jurisdiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133"}],"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=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}