Metropolitan route M5 shield
Metropolitan route M5
Route information
Maintained by Johannesburg Roads Agency and Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport
Length44.9 km (27.9 mi)
Major junctions
North end R540
Major intersections R512 at Elandsdrift
N14 Interchange, Muldersdrift
R564 Christiaan de Wet, Randpark Ridge
Northumberland, Sundowner
M6 Ysterhout Drive, Randpark Ridge
John Vorster Road, Randpark Ridge
N1 Western Bypass, Randpark Ridge
M8 Judges Avenue/Pendoring Avenue, Blackheath
R24 Albertina Sisulu Road, Mayfair West
R41 Main Reef Road, Riverlea
South end M38 Rifle Range Road, Ridgeway, Johannesburg
Location
CountrySouth Africa
Highway system
← M2→ M6

The M5 is a long metropolitan route in the Greater Johannesburg metropolitan area in South Africa. It starts in Ridgeway in the southern suburbs of Johannesburg. It passes through Mayfair and Brixton before travelling through Melville, Roosevelt Park, Northcliff, Blackheath and traversing the N1 Western Bypass at Randpark Ridge. It passes under the N14 freeway near Muldersdrift passing through the agricultural holding before ending at Kromdraai Road in the Lindley Agricultural Holdings. The main part of the route runs along Beyers Naudé Drive.[1][2]

Route

The M5 begins in the southern suburbs of Johannesburg at an intersection with Rifle Range Road (M38) in Ridgeway.[3]: 128  As it heads northwards as Nasrec Road, it bypasses the industrial suburb of Aeroton (where it meets a road providing access to the M1 North Highway to Johannesburg CBD) before passing the Nasrec showground.[3]: 128  It passes the FNB Stadium (famously known as Soccer City) to the west and the Crown Mines Golf Club to the east.[3]: 128  Continuing northwards it passes under the Soweto Highway (M70), passing through old gold mining tailings, before reaching a roundabout with a road that's meant to be an extension of the N17 south of Riverlea.[3]: 106 

The road continues northwards as the Nasrec Road through the suburb of Riverlea and passes the George Harrison Park, commemorating the place of the first gold discovery on the Witwatersrand in 1886.[3]: 106  Passing through Main Reef Road (R41), the M5 becomes Marais Street and Du Toit Avenue in Paarlshoop.[3]: 106 

Ending briefly at the intersection of Albertina Sisulu Road in Langlaagte North, it cosigns with the R24 Albertina Sisulu Road eastwards and turns north again at St Jerome Avenue, becoming Mercury Street (separating Langlaagte North from Mayfair West).[3]: 106  Turning right into High Street then left into Ditton Avenue in Brixton, the M5 passes the University of Johannesburg.[3]: 80  Crossing Kingsway Avenue At Auckland Park, it becomes Main Road, entering the suburb of Melville.[3]: 80 

The road becomes Beyers Naudé Drive, originally called DF Malan Drive, and passes through a gorge between the eastern & western sections of the Melville Koppies, high ground with views to the northern and southern suburbs of Johannesburg, and the Koppies hold the archaeological record of the original black inhabitants of the Witwatersrand.[3]: 80  Leaving the gorge, the road passes West Park Cemetery on its left and Johannesburg Botanical Garden on its right.[3]: 80  It continues north-west through the old suburbs of Randburg like Northcliff, Linden and Cresta.[3]: 54  After passing the Cresta Shopping Centre on its right, it intersects and passes under the N1 Western Bypass a few kilometres later.[3]: 53  Continuing north-west through Randpark Ridge it crosses over the M6 (Ysterhout Drive) and after 4km it intersects with Christian De Wet Road and Northumberland Avenue together part of the R564.[3]: 30–31 

Passing through Honeydew, the suburb thins as it becomes a set of agricultural holdings but continues north-west as Beyers Naudé Drive and intersects the R114 at a staggered junction near Muldersdrift and shortly thereafter the N14 Pretoria-Krugersdorp freeway.[4] Passing over the freeway it continues north-east now through more agricultural holdings before ending at its northern terminus as a t-junction with the western R540 Road after crossing the Crocodile River.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Johannesburg Roads Agency - Company documents". www.jra.org.za. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "Johannesburg Road Agency Q2 2021 Report" (PDF). Johannesburg Road Agency Website. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Street Guide Witwatersrand (8th ed.). MapStudio. 1996.
  4. ↑ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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