{"id":16680,"date":"2025-03-06T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T08:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/special-project\/sa-roads-agency-ensures-seamless-experience-for-g20-summit-despite-traffic-light-challenges\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:47:21","slug":"sa-roads-agency-ensures-seamless-experience-for-g20-summit-despite-traffic-light-challenges","status":"publish","type":"special-project","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/special-project\/sa-roads-agency-ensures-seamless-experience-for-g20-summit-despite-traffic-light-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Roads Agency ensures seamless experience for G20 Summit despite traffic light challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor elementor-1047 elementor-location-single post-11198 news type-news status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry news-type-general_news entry elementor-motion-effects-parent\" data-elementor-type=\"single-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1047\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10dab82 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-id=\"10dab82\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5192d63 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5192d63\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3833c0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3833c0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has assured that there will be no interruptions ahead of the G20 Summit in South Africa (SA), despite ongoing challenges with non-functional traffic lights caused by vandalism and technical issues.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3016c78 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"3016c78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>The agency has promised a seamless and safe experience for delegates arriving in Johannesburg as the city prepares to host the prestigious G20 Summit for Heads of State and Government later this year in the country\u2019s economic hub.<\/p>\n<p>Sipho Nhlapho, JRA\u2019s Acting Head of Mobility, says teams are working around the clock to address any potential challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city is ready for G20, not because of traffic lights. Continuously we maintain the traffic lights as a plan for us. It is not because of G20. It is because we have to maintain these traffic lights for the city. Now the relevance of G20 is not that much because if you look at the routes that are identified for dignitaries that will be moving to hotels and all, they are mostly provincial routes, not inner city roads or access roads,\u201d Nhlapho explained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC\/ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16681,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"featured-post":[],"class_list":["post-16680","special-project","type-special-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The agency has promised a seamless and safe experience for delegates arriving in Johannesburg.","count_down_image":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/special-project\/16680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/special-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/special-project"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"featured-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured-post?post=16680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}