National Route 17
| National Route N17 in South Africa | |
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| Operator: | SANRAL |
| Overall length: | 338 km |
The National Route 17 (in short N17 ) is a South African national road , which in Soweto starting until after Oshoek at the boundary between South Africa and Swasiland runs.
Route
The N17 begins in the Soweto area between Orlando West and Orlando East as Klipspruit Valley Road , where it initially forms a subordinate local road and on Nasrec Road , north of the Soweto Highway ( M70 ) in the Riverlea district and not far from the FNB stadium , is interrupted. Before that, she meets the Western Bypass ( N1 ), which is part of the toll road ring around Johannesburg .
A little further east on Wemmer Pan Road, the higher expansion stage of the N17 begins as a four-lane motorway near Pioneers Park in Springfield . Shortly afterwards it passes the City Deep district , where it enables a connection to the City Deep Container Terminal via the M31 ( Heidelberg Road ) . Shortly afterwards, the N17 passes through two successive interchanges the N12 and N3 , one of the most important traffic hubs in the south of Johannesburg.
The trunk road now runs east through the East Rand region past the town of Brakpan to Springs , where the four-lane expansion phase ends at Selection Park . Further on as a single-lane road, it passes the cities of Leandra , Trichardt near Secunda , Bethal and Ermelo .
In Ermelo the N11 crosses and begins the N2 , the latter running on the southern border sections of Swaziland and on to the Indian Ocean via Richards Bay to Durban . From Ermelo the N17 turns to the northeast, touches Chrissiesmeer and Warburton , crosses the R33, which briefly follows a common route and finally reaches the border crossing ( Oshoek Border Post ) to Swaziland in Oshoek .
From the border, the flow of traffic follows the Swaziland MR3 highway in the direction of Manzini .
Route expansion
In all sections, the road is paved with asphalt, on a few kilometers between Springs and Leandra with paved verge, further east with graveled edge areas. The road conditions between Leandra and the national border are poor and the surface in need of renewal. Construction work will be carried out in sections.
There are several toll booths on the N17 .
history
The N17 was planned as an international road route in the form of a two-lane motorway between the Johannesburg region and Swaziland in the 1980s. From this to Springs, the sections have been built as a national highway. The administration of what was then the Transvaal Province built the remaining sections of the route to Leandra around 1990 as a single-lane route. The route then follows a route that has not yet been modernized.
Web links
- South African National Roads Agency Ltd. (SANRAL) . on www.nra.co.za (English)
- SANRAL: Road Conditions N17 . on www.nra.co.za (English)