{"id":20593,"date":"2013-06-22T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/brt-the-thlot-pickens\/"},"modified":"2013-06-22T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T14:46:18","slug":"brt-the-thlot-pickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/brt-the-thlot-pickens\/","title":{"rendered":"BRT \u2013 the thlot pickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the BRT \/ IPTS (pick your abbreviation) and the infighting my eyes tend to glaze over with exasperation at the antics of the various players \u2013 of course with so much smoke there has to be a fire which probably is fed with the stink of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly the whole process should be scrapped and restarted \u2013 maybe then the call for and awarding of bids will happen in a fair environment.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime a useful and efficient addition to our city\u2019s transport is being treated like a small child in an acrimonious divorce action and runs the real risk of costing ratepayers a further heap of moola.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I received the following e-mail from \u2018Milton Peters\u2019 with regards to the Lumen Technologies, Aurecon and political involvement in the BRT saga:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hi Everyone<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to know the facts behind BRT then go to <a title=\"Facts to Share - BRT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facts2share.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.facts2share.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The whole truth and nothing but the truth!<\/p>\n<p>This is what the administration and CM was trying to suppress<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy our reading<\/p>\n<p>we will be posting more information weekly there<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The above mail CC section contained these email domain names: @mype.co.za, @agsa.co.za, @treasury.gov.za, @udm.org.za, @ict-works.co.za, @nmbbusinesschamber.co.za, nmbratepayersoffice and @npa.gov.za<\/p>\n<p>There is certainly a lot of info posted on the\u00a0<a title=\"Facts to Share - BRT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facts2share.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.facts2share.org<\/a> site and I found myself wondering just who created the site and what their motivation is. Unfortunately the whois for facts2share.org is hidden behind a Contact Privacy address so I have asked the registrant to let me know why they feel the need to hide behind layers of anonymity \u2013 after all information such as this is far more credible if given out by an identifiable person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the BRT \/ IPTS (pick your abbreviation) and the infighting my eyes tend to glaze over with exasperation at the antics of the various players \u2013 of course with so much smoke there has to be a fire which probably is fed with the stink of corruption. Frankly the whole process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-20593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}