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M9 Road (Cape Town)
The M9 is a long metropolitan route in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. It connects Sir Lowry's Pass Village with Wynberg via Somerset West, Firgrove, Macassar, Khayelitsha and Nyanga. Route The M9 begins at a junction with the N2 national route just north-east of Gordon's Bay. It begins as Sir Lowry's Pass Village Road by going northwards into the Sir Lowry's Pass Village to reach the Old Sir Lowry's Pass Road, where it turns westwards. It heads west-north-west for 6 kilometres, parallel to the N2, to enter the town of Somerset West and reach a junction with the M153 route, where it changes its name to Main Road. At the next junction, the M9 leaves Main Road to become Andries Pretorius Street via a left turn. It heads north-west for 2 kilometres through the town centre of Somerset West as Andries Pretorius Street, then Upper Orange Street, to reach another junction with Main Road, where the M9 becomes Main Road westwards. It proceeds to reach a junction with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Cape Town
The City of Cape Town (; ) is a Metropolitan municipality (South Africa), metropolitan municipality that forms the metropolitan municipality (South Africa), local government of Cape Town and surrounding areas. As of 2022 it has a population of 4,772,846. History Cape Town first received local self-government in 1839, with the promulgation of a municipal ordinance by the government of the Cape Colony. When it was created, the Cape Town municipality governed only the central part of the city known as the City Bowl, and as the city expanded, new suburbs became new municipalities, until by 1902 there were 10 separate municipalities in the Cape Peninsula. During the 20th century, many of the inner suburban municipalities became unsustainable; in 1913 the first major unification took place when the municipalities of Cape Town, Green Point, Cape Town, Green Point and Sea Point, Woodstock, Cape Town, Woodstock, Mowbray, Cape Town, Mowbray, Rondebosch, Claremont, Cape Town, Claremon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M153 (Cape Town)
The City of Cape Town (Cape Town metropolitan area) like most South African metropolitan areas, uses metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city routes, a layer below national (N) roads and regional (R) roads. Each city's M roads are independently numbered. Table of M roads See also * Numbered routes in South Africa In South Africa some roads are designated as numbered routes to help with navigation. There is a nationwide numbering scheme consisting of national, provincial and regional routes, and within various urban areas there are schemes of metropolit ... References *Google Maps *Google Streetview *OpenStreetMap * MapStudio Street Guide: Cape Town including Western Cape Towns (2013) {{Cape Town, built Roads in South Africa Roads in Cape Town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M4 Road (Cape Town)
The M4 is a long metropolitan route in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa. It connects the Cape Town CBD with the Cape of Good Hope via Wynberg, Muizenberg and Fish Hoek. Originally, it was the main route connecting the Cape Town CBD with the Southern Suburbs and is thus named ''Main Road'' for much of its length. From the CBD to Kirstenhof, it is parallel to the M3 Freeway. Route The M4 begins at a junction with the M59 route (Buitenkant Street) in District Six (Zonnebloem; east of the Cape Town City Centre), just north of the District Six Museum and just east of the Cape Town City Hall. It begins by heading eastwards as Sir Lowry Road to fly over the N2 highway (Nelson Mandela Boulevard) and enter the Woodstock suburb. In Woodstock, it slowly turns towards the south and reaches the Cape Town Science Centre and Groote Schuur Hospital in Observatory, where it once again flies over the N2 highway (Settlers Way). It continues southwards as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M5 (Cape Town)
The M5 is an Limited-access road, expressway in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa. It connects Milnerton on the Western Seaboard in the north to Muizenberg in the south, and crosses both the N1 (South Africa), N1 and the N2 (South Africa), N2. For part of its length, from the N1 interchange to Plumstead, Cape Town, Plumstead, it is a Controlled-access highway, limited-access freeway (motorway). From Mowbray to Muizenberg it is parallel to the M4 road (Cape Town), M4 Main Road. Route The M5 begins at the Potsdam interchange with the N7 (South Africa), N7 highway in the suburb of Dunoon, Cape Town, Dunoon. It goes south-south-west as Potsdam Road and reaches a junction with the M14 (Cape Town), M14 (Blaauwberg Road), where it becomes Koeberg Road and becomes a dual carriageway. The M14 joins the M5 for a few metres southwards before becoming its own road eastwards (Plattekloof Road) while the M5 continues south as Koeberg Road. It proceeds southwards f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest city by population, after Johannesburg, and the largest city in the Western Cape. The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality (South Africa), metropolitan municipality. The city is known for Port of Cape Town, its harbour, its natural setting in the Cape Floristic Region, and for landmarks such as Table Mountain and Cape Point. In 2014, Cape Town was named the best place in the world to visit by ''The New York Times'', and was similarly ranked number one by ''The Daily Telegraph'' in both 2016 and 2023. Located on the shore of Table Bay, the City Bowl area of Cape Town, which contains its Cape Town CBD, central business district (CBD), is History of Cape Town, the oldest urban area in the Western Cape, with a signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M17 (Cape Town)
The City of Cape Town (Cape Town metropolitan area) like most South African metropolitan areas, uses metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city routes, a layer below national (N) roads and regional (R) roads. Each city's M roads are independently numbered. Table of M roads See also * Numbered routes in South Africa In South Africa some roads are designated as numbered routes to help with navigation. There is a nationwide numbering scheme consisting of national, provincial and regional routes, and within various urban areas there are schemes of metropolit ... References *Google Maps *Google Streetview *OpenStreetMap * MapStudio Street Guide: Cape Town including Western Cape Towns (2013) {{Cape Town, built Roads in South Africa Roads in Cape Town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M7 (Cape Town)
The M7, also named Jakes Gerwel Drive (previously Vanguard Drive; renamed on 18 January 2015), is a limited-access road and Metropolitan Routes in Cape Town, metropolitan route in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. It connects Acacia Park, Cape Town, Acacia Park with Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, Rocklands on the False Bay Coast via the Cape Flats. Route The M7 begins at an interchange with the N1 (South Africa), N1 highway and the southern terminus of the N7 (South Africa), N7 highway adjacent to Acacia Park, Cape Town, Acacia Park and Summer Greens. The M7 begins by heading southwards as Jakes Gerwel Drive (formerly Vanguard Drive; renamed on 18 January 2015), forming the western boundary of Goodwood, Western Cape, Goodwood, to meet the R102 (South Africa), R102 (Voortrekker Road). The M7 then separates Thornton, Cape Town, Thornton in the west from the GrandWest Casino in the east before meeting the M16 (Cape Town), M16 (Viking Way) and separating the two sides of the Eppi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R300 (South Africa)
. The R300 or Kuils River Freeway (also Cape Flats Freeway) is a Regional Route in the Cape Metropole, South Africa that connects Mitchells Plain with the N2, Kuilsrivier, and the N1 between Bellville and Brackenfell. The R300 is a freeway for its entire length; it forms part of the proposed Peninsula Expressway. Route The R300 begins at the Stellenberg Interchange with the N1 between Bellville and Brackenfell and heads south bordering between both towns. It eventually borders between Bellville and Kuilsrivier and borders between Delft and Blue Downs before intersecting with the N2 (Settlers Way) north of Mitchells Plain and Philippi. It then turns in a south-westerly direction between Mitchells Plain and Phillipi and ends at an intersection with the M7 (Jakes Gerwel Drive) in Mitchells Plain, just north of Schaapkraal. Interchanges Peninsula Expressway The entirety of the R300 Freeway is part of the proposed Peninsula Expressway, which is to be designated as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M32 (Cape Town)
The City of Cape Town (Cape Town metropolitan area) like most South African metropolitan areas, uses metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city routes, a layer below national (N) roads and regional (R) roads. Each city's M roads are independently numbered. Table of M roads See also * Numbered routes in South Africa In South Africa some roads are designated as numbered routes to help with navigation. There is a nationwide numbering scheme consisting of national, provincial and regional routes, and within various urban areas there are schemes of metropolit ... References *Google Maps *Google Streetview *OpenStreetMap * MapStudio Street Guide: Cape Town including Western Cape Towns (2013) {{Cape Town, built Roads in South Africa Roads in Cape Town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R310 (South Africa)
The R310 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects Muizenberg to the south-west with the R45 between Paarl and Franschhoek to the north-east, via Stellenbosch and Hellshoogte Pass. The section between Muizenberg and Stellenbosch is called Baden Powell Drive. Route The R310 begins in Muizenberg at an intersection with the M4 (Main Road). It runs east as Baden Powell Drive, meeting the southern terminus of the M5 (Prince George Drive), hugging the False Bay coast and passing in-between Strandfontein and the Wolfgat Nature Reserve before passing south of Mitchells Plain, where it meets the southern terminus of the M7 (Jakes Gerwel Drive). The R310 continues eastwards to bypass the township of Khayelitsha, where it turns away from the coast towards the north-east and meets the M9 (Macassar Road; Japhta K Masemola Road) before crossing the N2 freeway. The R310 continues north-east, still named Baden Powell Drive, skirting Eersterivier to the east, to enter Stellenb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eerste River
The Eerste River, located in the Western Cape, South Africa, rises on Dwarsberg 60 km east of Cape Town at the head of Jonkershoek valley. The Eerste River catchment covers the eastern part of the Cape Flats lying to the west of the Hottentots Holland Mountains and south of the Tygerberg where the Kuils River tributary rises east of Kanonkop. The Eerste River is a short river; its length has been given as 40 km. The major tributary, Kuils River, is approximately 30 km long to its point of confluence with the Eerste River. For a significant part of its course, the river flows through the City of Cape Town. A population of the endangered local endemic Berg River Redfin (''Pseudobarbus burgi'') was found in the Eerste River, but may be extinct in this river system. Tributaries From "Rivers and Wetlands of Cape Town", ordered from source to sea: *Jonkershoek River *Plankenbrug River (R) **Klipies River (L) **Kromme River (L) *Veldwachters River (R) *Sanddrif R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macassar Dunes Conservation Area
Macassar Dunes Conservation Area is a coastal nature reserve in Macassar, within the City of Cape Town, South Africa. Biodiversity This conservation area conserves the unique local “ Cape Flats Dune Strandveld” vegetation with its dense evergreen thickets, flowers, shrubs and trees. The last remaining forest of the endangered White Milkwood tree (''Sideroxylon inerme'') on the Cape Flats is found on this reserve, and it is also home to the largest and highest dune system on the Cape Peninsula. Many of the 178 plant species that can be found here burst into flower in spring time, covering the dunes with colour. Animal species found here include buck, tortoises, porcupine, hares, mongoose and a variety of bird species. History The area was originally inhabited by the Khoi-khoi people who had lived at the Cape for centuries. In the 1600s under colonial rule, the first Muslim community in South Africa was founded here by Sheikh Yusuf of Indonesia, who named the area after his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
