N17 road (South Africa)
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The National Route 17 (short- N17 ) is a South African National Road, the starting up after Oshoek runs in Soweto on the border between South Africa and Swaziland.
Route
The N17 takes its beginning in the area of Soweto between Orlando West and Orlando East as Klipspruit Valley Road, where it first forms a subordinate municipal road and at the Nasrec Road, north of Soweto Highway ( M70 ) in the district of Riverlea and close to the FNB Stadium, is interrupted. Previously, she meets the Western Bypass ( N1), which belongs to the toll motorway ring around Johannesburg.
A little further east begins the higher stage of the N17 as a four-lane highway at Pioneers Park in Springfield. Shortly after it passes through the City Deep area in which they ensured via the M31 (Heidelberg Road) a connection to the City Deep Container Terminal. Shortly after the N17 crossed by two successive interchanges the N12 and N3, one of the most important road junctions in the south of Johannesburg.
Now, the main road runs to the east by the East Rand region of the city of Brakpan past until after Springs, where in Selection Park the four-lane extension ends. Continue as lane road it passes the towns Leandra, Trichardt near Secunda, Bethal and Ermelo.
In Ermelo crosses the N11 and starts the N2, the latter extending to the southern sections of the border of Swaziland and on to the Indian Ocean via Richards Bay to Durban. From Ermelo from the N17 to the northeast turns, touches Chrissiesmeer and Warburton, crosses the R33, which briefly follows the common location and event finally reached in Oshoek the border crossing into Swaziland.
From the border of the traffic flow of highway Swazi MR3 towards Manzini follows.
Track Removal
In all sections the road is built with asphalt, to several kilometers between Springs and Leandra with attached edge strips, to the east with gravelled border areas. Between Leandra and the border the road conditions are bad and the lining significantly renovation. Construction works are carried out in sections.
On the N17 there are several toll stations.
History
The N17 was planned in the 1980s as an international road route in the form of a two-lane highway between Johannesburg region and Swaziland. Of the sections have been built as a national highway to Springs. The other sections to Leandra built the administration of the former Transvaal province in 1990 as a one-lane road. Then follows the route of a not yet modernized lines.
Weblink
- South African National Roads Agency Limited. ( SANRAL ). on www.nra.co.za (English)
- SANRAL: Road Conditions N17. on www.nra.co.za (English)