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M57 (Johannesburg)
The M57 is a major metropolitan route in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. A north/south route, it connects Germiston with the south-eastern suburbs of Pretoria via Kempton Park and Olifantsfontein. For most of its length, it is an alternative route to the R21 freeway. Route The M57 begins at a 4-way-junction with the R29 and M37 in Primrose (north of Germiston City Centre). It starts by heading east-north-east as Pretoria Road and meets the M39 (Lazarus Mawela Road) before crossing the N12 Highway (Johannesburg-Witbank Highway) as Ntemi Ncwane Road (formerly Kraft Road). Just after the N12 junction, it reaches a junction with the M44 (North Reef Road) in the industrialised suburb of Elandsfontein. It joins the M44 Road eastwards up to the next junction, where it becomes its own road northwards. It heads northwards as Jet Park Road through Jet Park to meet the M41 (Griffiths Road) at a t-junction, with the M41 leading to the R21 freeway and to the South African Airw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannesburg Roads Agency
The Johannesburg Roads Agency is a department of the Government of Gauteng. JRA began on business on 1 January 2001 with the City of Johannesburg being the main shareholder. The JRA's plans, designs, constructs, operates, controls, rehabilitates and maintains the roads and stormwater infrastructure in Johannesburg. This Extends to constructing and maintaining of bridges, culverts, traffic Lights, pathways, road signs and markings. Background Facilities Asphalt Plant The JRA operates and manages an asphalt plant in Johannesburg. The plant opened due to a shortage in asphalt and the ongoing problem of potholes in Johannesburg. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the plant shut down temporarily and reopened April 2021. See also * Government of Gauteng * Department of Transport (South Africa) * Department of Public Works (South Africa) * SANRAL * Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport References External links JRA Website {{Greater Johannesburg, transport Roads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witbank
Witbank (), officially Emalahleni, is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the Emalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for "white ridge", and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wagon transport drivers rested. The city is known for its coal-mining in the surrounding region. Witbank was renamed to Emalahleni meaning the ''place of coal'' in 2006 by the government of Mpumalanga, matching the municipality. Witbank was founded in 1890 and early attempts to exploit the coal deposits failed until the railway from Pretoria reached the area in 1894. It was proclaimed a town in 1903 and became a municipality in 1914. There are many stories about the city and its origination but the top story would be the arrival of Winston Churchill at the nearby Transvaal and Delagoa Bay Colliery during his escape from Boer imprisonment in Pretoria, on his way to Delagoa Bay (later Lourenço Marques, and then Maputo, in Mozambique). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Grove, Gauteng
Allen Grove is a residential suburb of Kempton Park, in Gauteng province, South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ..., just north of the CBD. In the 2011 census the population counted 2,800. References Suburbs of Kempton Park, Gauteng {{Gauteng-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M45 (Johannesburg)
The M45 is a long metropolitan route in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. It connects Kempton Park with Dunnottar (north of Nigel) via Benoni, Brakpan, KwaThema and Tsakane. The entire route is in the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. Route The M45 begins in Kempton Park, at a t-junction with the M57 Road (Pretoria Road) in the suburb of Allen Grove (2 kilometres north of the Kempton Park CBD). It begins by going eastwards as Van Riebeeck Road (separating Allen Grove from Kempton Park Extension 4) to reach a junction with the M91 Road (Monument Road). It continues eastwards, separating Aston Manor and Nimrod Park from Kempton Park Extension 4, to reach a junction with the M43 Road (Dann Road). The M45 joins the M43 and they are one road south-east, immediately forming an interchange with the M32 Road (Pomona Road) and flying over the R21 Highway, to reach a junction, where the M43 becomes its own road southwards (Atlas Road) while the M45 continues s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edleen
Edleen is a suburb in western Kempton Park, in Gauteng province, South Africa. History The suburb lies on part of an old Witwatersrand The Witwatersrand () (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a , north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which ... farm called ''Zuurfontein''. It was named after the owners Edward and Eileen Vermaak. The original homestead was situated on stands 220, 221, 222, 223 and 224 situated between Green avenue, Ilex Avenue and Hawthorne Avenue. In the early 1960s this property was sold to Alec Louw and Eddy and Eileen Vermaak relocated to 36 Okkerneut avenue. This property was also purchased by Alec Louw about 2 years later and they then relocated to a plot in Pomona. The first six houses built in Edleen was Okkerneut Avenue 36, 32, 28 and 26 and two houses opposite the road from 36. References Suburbs of Kempto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M90 (Johannesburg)
The M90 is a short metropolitan route in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. It is made up of one street (CR Swart Drive) in the city of Kempton Park, connecting Kempton Park West with the CBD. Route The M90 begins as an off-ramp of the M39 Road (Zuurfontein Avenue; east southbound only) in Kempton Park West, adjacent to the M39's interchange with the R25 (Modderfontein Road). It goes eastwards as CR Swart Drive, meeting the M88 Road (Parkland Ave; Rienert Ave) at the next junction adjacent to Kempton Gate Shopping Centre and separating Edleen in the north from Esther Park in the south. It continues eastwards, meeting the M92 Road (Green Avenue) just north of Dries Niemandt Park (Barnard Stadium Barnard Stadium is a sports stadium situated in Kempton Park, South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch al ...) before meeting the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M32 (Johannesburg)
The M32 is a short metropolitan route in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. The entire route is in the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. It goes from the western part of Kempton Park eastwards to the northern parts of Benoni. Route The M32 begins at a junction with the M39 road (Isando Road) in the western part of Kempton Park, just east of the Spartan Extensions and just south of Esther Park. It begins by going east as Plane Road, forming the northern border of Cresslawn, Spartan Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta refe ... and Rhodesfield Extension 1, to enter the Kempton Park CBD and reach a junction with the M57 road (Pretoria Road). The M32 joins the M57 and they are one road southwards for 400 metres up to the next junction, where the M32 becomes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodesfield
Rhodesfield is a suburb central to Kempton Park, in Gauteng province, South Africa, just south of the CBD. It houses the last station on the Gautrain route to OR Tambo International Airport from Sandton Sandton is an upscale commercial and residential district north of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. It forms part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The name of the city came from the combination of two of its suburbs .... The station is at the corner of Anson and Valencia Streets, north of the nearby R24 highway. Rail service Rhodesfield is one of the two eastern termini of the Airport Line.Gautrain route map ''Gautrain'' Retrieved 2 June 2010 Essentially, it acts as the commuter rail variant of the close by [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M16 (Johannesburg)
M16 is a metropolitan route in Johannesburg, South Africa. It begins in the north-western suburb of Greenside and heads eastwards through some of Johannesburg's northern suburbs and through Edenvale to end at the East Rand town of Kempton Park. Route Starting at an intersection with the M71 (Barry Hertzog Avenue) in Greenside, the route heads east as Greenhill Road to Parkview Golf Club. It then crosses the golf course and the Braamfontein Spruit as Wicklow Avenue. Crossing Emmarentia Avenue it continues south-east until it reaches a t-junction with Westcliff Drive and continues eastwards as the latter circling the Westcliff suburb and reaches the M27 road ( Jan Smuts Avenue). The M16 route turns right into Jan Smuts Avenue and is cosigned briefly before turning left into Upper Park Drive, Forest Town where it follows the southern border of the Johannesburg Zoo and then becomes Erlsworld Way in Saxonwold. Outside the South African National Museum of Military History tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R24 (South Africa)
The R24 is a major East-West provincial route in the Gauteng and North West provinces that links OR Tambo International Airport with Rustenburg via Johannesburg, Krugersdorp and Magaliesburg. The process of renaming the streets and freeway that form the route from Krugersdorp eastward to OR Tambo International after anti-apartheid stalwart Albertina Sisulu was completed in 2013. After passing through Central Johannesburg and some of Johannesburg's eastern suburbs (a section maintained by the Johannesburg Roads Agency, a department of the City of Johannesburg), the route becomes a freeway outside Eastgate Shopping Centre in Bedfordview, a section which is maintained by the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport, part of the Gauteng Provincial Government. This freeway section of the route intersects with the N3 and the N12 at George Bizos Interchange. There are offramps that lead to Edenvale, and parts of Kempton Park, before the road ends in the vicinity of OR Tambo Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M99 (Johannesburg)
The M99 is a short metropolitan route in Johannesburg, South Africa. For its entire route, it parallels the R24 Highway (Albertina Sisulu Freeway) in the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. Route The M99 begins at a junction with the M57 Road (Pretoria Road) near O. R. Tambo International Airport in the southern part of Kempton Park. It begins by going eastwards towards the airport and at the next junction, the M99 turns north, then west, via a left turn to pass under the M57 and head westwards. It heads west-south-west as Electron Avenue, parallel to the R24 Highway (Albertina Sisulu Freeway), to form the northern border of the southernmost suburb of Kempton Park (Isando Industrial Area) and reach a junction with the M39 Road (Isando Road). Shortly after, it reaches a junction with the M59 Road (Lazarus Mawela Road). The M99 continues west-south-west as Herman Street, still parallel to the R24, to form the northern border of the northernmost suburbs of Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isando
Isando is a town in Ekurhuleni in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is also the name of the medical cannabis flower produced by MedCan. History Industrial township south-west of Kempton Park, 22 km east of Johannesburg. It was laid out on the farm ''Witkoppie'' and proclaimed on 21 December 1949. The name is of Bantu Bantu may refer to: *Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages *Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language * Bantu knots, a type of African hairstyle * Black Association for Nationa ... origin and it is the Zulu name for a hammer. References Kempton Park, Gauteng Populated places in Ekurhuleni Industrial parks {{Gauteng-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
