N14 road (South Africa)
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Provinces:
- Northern Cape
- Northwest
- Gauteng
The National Route 14 (short- N14) is a South African national road of Springbok in the north- west of the country up to Pretoria, the capital of South Africa runs.
Route
From Springbok in Namaqualand, the N14 runs in a northeasterly direction over Pofadder and Kakamas to Upington. Between Kakamas and Upington, the road follows the valley of the Orange River, where it is also accompanied by a railway line.
After Upington it traverses 160 kilometers on a dry section of the southern Kalahari, which is inhabited only very low and rises to about 1400 meters above sea level in the east. In Olifantshoek the road in the mountains of the Langeberg Mountains again reached populated area within a savannah region with cattle pastures.
South of the mining town Sishen crosses the railroad track in the Orex line N14. In the small town of Droëspruit the highway exceeds a leading approach from the south rail line from the iron ore mining area around Postmasburg. Continue north to Kathu Game Reserve swings the N14 back in a northeasterly direction to the mining town of Kuruman. There she touches the northern foothills of the Kuruman Hills with the Kalahari manganese field Manganerzlagerstätten. The road system in this region has a high logistical importance for the transport of the ore extracted to the information held here in expansion Railroads of Transnet Freight Rail.
From here, the N14 continues through only slightly populated area, exceeds the provincial border to North West and reached after a total of about 130 kilometers Vryburg. In this place crosses the N18, which further leads coming from the south of Kimberley at a border crossing to Botswana.
The N14 also retains almost straight north-easterly direction at, happens Delareyville, the Barberspan Nature Reserve, Sannieshof until they reach the village of Coligny. Here the branches leading to the north regional road R503 towards Lichtenburg and on to Mahikeng from. Even before Coligny sections approaching a railroad line of the N14, but the turns near the village of Tshing to Johannesburg. The main road runs to the northeast, through the small town of Ventersdorp, exceeds the provincial border to Gauteng, to the vicinity of Krugersdorp. They reached the industrial and mining area of Far West Rand. From here it runs west of Johannesburg at the periphery of an increasingly densely populated area and near the metropolitan area to the south of Pretoria. They crossed at the junction Zwartkop the M5, which leads them far from the urban area of Johannesburg out.
In Centurion, the N14 with the interchange of Centurion Zwartkop connection with the N1. Here they turn onto the Ben Schoeman Highway in a northerly direction, where shortly thereafter approaches the route of the Gautrain transport system and penetrates into the city area of Pretoria in parallel with the N14. Near to the center she crosses the Gautrainstrecke and then takes on the Freedom Park on the left side approach leading R101, being west Pretoria Central ends near the train station on the downtown area.
Track Removal
From Springbok to Upington is the N14 from a continuous single-lane highway. Between Upington and Ventersdorp there are sections with a lack of capacity and stability are improved since the period 2012-2013 at several points by construction and expanded.
The Government of Gauteng has the rehabilitation of the section between Centurion and Pretoria, Ben Schoeman Highway called, set a focus of investment for transport infrastructure on the territory of the Municipality of Tshwane Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project within their.
On the western edge of the City of Johannesburg, the stage will be initiated as Freeway. To accommodate the large volume of traffic, this road section continues until the end of the route in the center of Pretoria. So far, there are no toll roads on the N14.