{"id":217542,"date":"2025-12-21T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-unveils-high-tech-norton-toll-plaza-in-push-for-safer-faster-roads\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:25:31","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-unveils-high-tech-norton-toll-plaza-in-push-for-safer-faster-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-unveils-high-tech-norton-toll-plaza-in-push-for-safer-faster-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Unveils High-Tech Norton Toll Plaza in Push for Safer, Faster Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The government has commissioned an expanded Norton Toll Plaza unveiling a high-tech facility aimed at easing traffic congestion, improving road safety and modernising the country&#8217;s transport infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking at the commissioning, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Felix Mhona said the upgraded plaza was a response to rising traffic volumes and growing pressure on the country&#8217;s roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He said revenue collected at the toll gate would be channelled back into&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190054.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has commissioned an expanded Norton Toll Plaza unveiling a high-tech facility aimed at easing traffic congestion, improving road safety and modernising the country&#8217;s transport infrastructure. Speaking at the commissioning, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Felix Mhona said the upgraded plaza was a response to rising traffic volumes and growing pressure on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,12299,4357,53182,257,5927,50351,6354,9013,7719,254,11260,6777,4686,421],"class_list":["post-217542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-faster","tag-govt","tag-hightech","tag-news","tag-norton","tag-plaza","tag-push","tag-roads","tag-safer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toll","tag-unveils","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217542","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}