{"id":202665,"date":"2025-07-17T21:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-officially-turns-over-traffic-management-to-ltm-today\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:18:50","slug":"liberia-govt-officially-turns-over-traffic-management-to-ltm-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-officially-turns-over-traffic-management-to-ltm-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Govt Officially Turns Over Traffic Management to LTM Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Government of Liberia will on today, Wednesday, July 16, officially transition responsibility for the country&#8217;s national traffic system to Liberia Traffic Management Inc. (LTM), a foreign-backed private firm granted a 25-year concession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"81\">The move marks the full implementation of a controversial agreement first introduced in 2018 under the previous Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC)-led government. The agreement, though signed years ago, had remained dormant due to resistance and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170588.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Liberia will on today, Wednesday, July 16, officially transition responsibility for the country&#8217;s national traffic system to Liberia Traffic Management Inc. (LTM), a foreign-backed private firm granted a 25-year concession. The move marks the full implementation of a controversial agreement first introduced in 2018 under the previous Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC)-led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4357,4712,1107,51888,7272,257,5982,254,6637,9527,7907],"class_list":["post-202665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-govt","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-ltm","tag-management","tag-news","tag-officially","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today","tag-traffic","tag-turns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}