Joburg tunnel fire: Electricity restored to parts of Parktown
City Power has restored power supply to more residents in the City of Johannesburg following the M1 tunnel fire incident that occured last week Wednesday.
The vandalism and theft triggered widespread outages that affected customers in Braamfontein, Newtown, Parktown, the Johannesburg CBD, and surrounding areas.
Earlier this week, the utility restored power supply to buildings such as Braampark, Liberty Life, Thuso House, Metro Center, and others.
The city's power utility says the phase of restoration was targeted at customers in the Parktown West area.
After laying several interconnector cables between Fort Substation and Braamfontein Substation, and successfully completing the tests, the following areas in Parktown West were finally restored in the early of Thursday morning.
These areas include Empire Road, Yale Road, Service Road, Napier Street, Wabord Road, Workman's rehab centre and John Orr technical.
City Power has called on residents of the remaining areas to have patience while more work is still underway parallel to the M1 bridge repairs, where areas are expected to take a bit longer to complete.
"We are hoping to restore more suburbs, including the rest of Braamfontein today (Thursday), if all goes according to plan," the utility said in a statement.
"With more customers diverted to Fort substation, there is a risk of overloading of that Substation. As such, Customers are encouraged to use power sparingly and unplug non-essential appliances such as geysers, pool pumps, and stoves.
"Failure to do so may force us to embark on load rotation for the duration of the repairs at the M1 bridge."
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