{"id":40664,"date":"2025-10-29T14:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/ethekwini-municipality-has-set-aside-r27-million-to-ensure-that-roads-around-the-durban-city-hall-are-safer-for-both-motorists-and-pedestrians\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:52:20","slug":"ethekwini-municipality-has-set-aside-r27-million-to-ensure-that-roads-around-the-durban-city-hall-are-safer-for-both-motorists-and-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/ethekwini-municipality-has-set-aside-r27-million-to-ensure-that-roads-around-the-durban-city-hall-are-safer-for-both-motorists-and-pedestrians\/","title":{"rendered":"eThekwini Municipality has set aside R27 million to ensure that roads around the Durban City Hall are safer for both motorists and pedestrians."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next five years, eThekwini Municipality has set aside R27 million to ensure that roads around the Durban City Hall are safer for both motorists and pedestrians.  <\/p>\n<p>This investment forms part of the City&rsquo;s broader strategy to reduce pedestrian fatalities in the Durban Central Business District (CBD).<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five years, 153 pedestrians have died in road crashes within the CBD, prompting urgent intervention by the eThekwini Transport Authority (ETA) and other City directorates. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative addresses persistent issues in the CBD such as red-light violations, speeding, reckless driving, illegal parking, and jaywalking, which continue to contribute to the high accident rate.<\/p>\n<p>To curb these challenges, ETA is implementing a series of infrastructure upgrades and awareness campaigns aimed at improving pedestrian safety and reducing traffic-related deaths in high-risk areas.<\/p>\n<p>Key infrastructure projects include raised intersections and pedestrian crossings&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75080&#038;page=ethekwini-municipality-has-set-aside-r27-million-to-ensure-that-roads-around-the-durban-city-hall-are-safer-for-both-motorists-and-pedestrians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next five years, eThekwini Municipality has set aside R27 million to ensure that roads around the Durban City Hall are safer for both motorists and pedestrians. This investment forms part of the City&rsquo;s broader strategy to reduce pedestrian fatalities in the Durban Central Business District (CBD). Over the past five years, 153 pedestrians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202025-10-29%20103223.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202025-10-29%20103223.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}