{"id":40999,"date":"2021-05-27T17:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T15:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=40999"},"modified":"2021-05-27T17:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T15:32:35","slug":"council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion","title":{"rendered":"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Harare City Council on Wednesday claimed that police roadblocks caused traffic congestion across the city, saying they should be removed.<\/p>\n

Posting on Twitter, the local authority singled out the Mbudzi roundabout as an example where a police roadblock was causing congestion along the busy Simon Mazorodze Road. The council said:<\/p>\n

Council has requested ZRP to remove its roadblock just after Mbudzi roundabout because it is causing congestion at the busy traffic circle.<\/p>\n

National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi could not be drawn into the matter yesterday. He said:<\/p>\n

I am not aware of the statement issued by the council.<\/p>\n

Cabinet recently established an inter-ministerial committee to tackle the congestion on many city roads.<\/p>\n

The inter-ministerial committee recommended the elimination of pirate kombis and mushikashika, repairing urgently critical non-functioning traffic lights, improving traffic control at congested junctions, repairing road surfaces at junctions and putting in kerbs to prevent U-turns.<\/p>\n

The government said it plans to import 667 buses to boost the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) fleet and providing dedicated bus lanes to curb traffic congestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Harare City Council on Wednesday claimed that police roadblocks caused traffic congestion across the city, saying they should be removed. Posting on Twitter, the local authority singled out the Mbudzi roundabout as an example where a police roadblock was causing congestion along the busy Simon Mazorodze Road. The council said: Council has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,2182,852,4798,2520,2521,4797,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-40999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-congestion","14":"tag-harare-city-council","15":"tag-mbudzi-roundabout","16":"tag-police-roadblocks","17":"tag-roadblocks","18":"tag-traffic-congestion","19":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nCouncil Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Harare City Council on Wednesday claimed that police roadblocks caused traffic congestion across the city, saying they s ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Harare City Council on Wednesday claimed that police roadblocks caused traffic congestion across the city, saying they s ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-27T15:57:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-27T15:32:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-60afbb6929be7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"352\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion\",\"name\":\"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-60afbb6929be7.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-27T15:57:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-27T15:32:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\"},\"description\":\"Harare City Council on Wednesday claimed that police roadblocks caused traffic congestion across the city, saying they s ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-60afbb6929be7.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-60afbb6929be7.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":352,\"caption\":\"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion - zimbabwe","description":"Harare City Council on Wednesday claimed that police roadblocks caused traffic congestion across the city, saying they s ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion","og_description":"Harare City Council on Wednesday claimed that police roadblocks caused traffic congestion across the city, saying they s ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2021-05-27T15:57:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-05-27T15:32:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":352,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-60afbb6929be7.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion","name":"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-60afbb6929be7.jpg","datePublished":"2021-05-27T15:57:18+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-27T15:32:35+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4"},"description":"Harare City Council on Wednesday claimed that police roadblocks caused traffic congestion across the city, saying they s ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-60afbb6929be7.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/05\/img-60afbb6929be7.jpg","width":800,"height":352,"caption":"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/council-blames-police-roadblocks-for-traffic-congestion#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Council Blames Police Roadblocks For Traffic Congestion"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}