{"id":13626,"date":"2022-03-01T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ondangwa-gets-new-taxi-rank"},"modified":"2022-03-01T18:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:17:40","slug":"ondangwa-gets-new-taxi-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ondangwa-gets-new-taxi-rank","title":{"rendered":"Ondangwa gets new taxi rank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>THE Ondangwa Town Council is constructing a N$500 000 new taxi rank at Omwandi.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Petrina Shitalangaho-Mutikisha, the council&#8217;s spokesperson, said the taxi rank would be a modern standard loading zone. Shitalangaho-Mutikisha told The Namibian on Friday that the current loading zone is old and in a poor state, hence the decision to construct a new one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Omwandi taxi rank has been in bad condition for years, and there has been chaos and robbery, especially of people using the medical centre and shops surrounding the loading zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaxis have been loading customers too close to the road, which poses a risk to pedestrians and customers, while at the same time blocking the way for other motorists using the road to Oshikango,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the new taxi rank would have demarcated loading and offloading lines. The construction of the new taxi rank started last month and is expected to be completed next month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. THE Ondangwa Town Council is constructing a N$500 000 new taxi rank at Omwandi. Petrina Shitalangaho-Mutikisha, the council&#8217;s spokesperson, said the taxi rank would be a modern standard loading zone. Shitalangaho-Mutikisha told The Namibian on Friday that the current loading zone is old and in a poor state, hence the decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-13626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ondangwa gets new taxi rank - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Ondangwa Town Council is constructing a N$500 000 new taxi rank at Omwandi. 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