The M17 road is a metropolitan route in the City of Tshwane in

Gauteng Gauteng ( , ; Sotho-Tswana languages, Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; or ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts f ...

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. It connects the suburb of Kirkney in

Pretoria Pretoria ( ; ) is the Capital of South Africa, administrative capital of South Africa, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to the country. Pretoria strad ...

with the northern parts of

Soshanguve Soshanguve is a township situated about 30 km north of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, just east of Mabopane. The name Soshanguve is an acronym for Sotho, Shangaan, Nguni and Venda, thus showing the multi-ethnic composition of the populat ...

and

Mabopane Mabopane is a residential township in South Africa. It is situated in the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, to the north of Pretoria in Gauteng. History Proclamation Mabopane was proclaimed in 1959 as a black-only residential settlement by the ...

Route

The M17 route begins in the suburb of Kirkney (north-west of Pretoria CBD; just west of Booysens), at a junction with the R514 route (Van Der Hoff Road). It heads north-west as the Horns Nek Pass for 8.8 kilometres to reach a junction with the R513 route (Brits Road). The R513 joins the M17 and they are one road northwards for 400 metres before the R513 becomes its own road eastwards towards Chantelle. The M17 continues northwards to meet the N4 highway ( Platinum Highway; Pretoria Northern Bypass) (eastbound only) before reaching a junction with the R566 route just west of Rosslyn. The M17 joins the R566 eastwards for 1.4 kilometres before becoming its own road northwards (Molotlegi Road). It bends westwards before leaving Molotlegi Road to become the road northwards, bypassing

Ga-Rankuwa Ga-Rankuwa is a large settlement located about 37 km north-west of Pretoria. Provincially it is in Gauteng province, but it used to fall in Bophuthatswana during the apartheid years, and under the North West province until the early 2000s. ...

to the east. The M17 continues northwards from the Molotlegi Road junction for 6.3 kilometres to reach a junction with the M20 route in the southern part of

. It continues northwards for 6.1 kilometres, parallel to a railway (which separates

in the west from Soshanguve in the east), to pass under the M39 route. It continues northwards for 4 kilometres, still parallel to the railway, to reach its end at a junction with the M44 route.

References

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