{"id":57681,"date":"2026-10-26T13:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-automobile-association-aa-of-south-africa-has-called-on-every-municipality-to-publish-a-list-of-its-broken-traffic-lights-and-streetlights\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:15:04","slug":"the-automobile-association-aa-of-south-africa-has-called-on-every-municipality-to-publish-a-list-of-its-broken-traffic-lights-and-streetlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-automobile-association-aa-of-south-africa-has-called-on-every-municipality-to-publish-a-list-of-its-broken-traffic-lights-and-streetlights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Automobile Association (AA) of South Africa has called on every municipality to publish a list of its broken traffic lights and streetlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Automobile Association (AA) of South Africa has called on every municipality to publish a list of its broken traffic lights and streetlights. Each fault should carry a reference number and a repair date. The AA wants the most urgent repairs done before the local government elections on 4 November and the festive season. Transport Month ends this week, but its final days still give government and councils the chance to lead before voters go to the polls: publish the list now and update it weekly.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Kariega businessman Jevon Dyer loaded about five broken traffic lights onto a trailer and offloaded them outside the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality&rsquo;s customer care office.* The lights outside his shop in Caledon Street had been out for months, and he said he had seen several accidents and near misses at the intersection. &ldquo;I thought, why not? I was just tired,&rdquo; he said at the time. About a week later, the lights were still lying outside the building.<\/p>\n<p>Days after&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78977&#038;page=the-automobile-association-aa-of-south-africa-has-called-on-every-municipality-to-publish-a-list-of-its-broken-traffic-lights-and-streetlights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Automobile Association (AA) of South Africa has called on every municipality to publish a list of its broken traffic lights and streetlights. Each fault should carry a reference number and a repair date. The AA wants the most urgent repairs done before the local government elections on 4 November and the festive season. Transport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57682,"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\/960Brokentrafficlight.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/960Brokentrafficlight.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57681","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=57681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}