Cape Town Ring Road

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The Cape Town Ring Road or Peninsula Expressway is a ring road around the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It will link the northern suburbs on the Atlantic seaboard with the southern suburbs on False Bay. Known as the N21. Currently the ring road is partly complete with most of the road being a Dual carriageway, with parts of the N1 and N2 and N7 being a dual 4 lane freeway.[1]

Cape Town Ring Road
Route information
Length52.9 km (32.9 mi)
Existed2008–present
Major junctions
Beltway around Cape Town
Major intersections N1 in to N7/ M7 near Cape Town North (exit 13)
M7 in to R300 near Philippi (exit 21)
R300 in to N1 near Cape Town East (exit 27)
Highway system
Numbered routes of South Africa

Background[]

Proposed Route[]

The proposed freeway will include sections of the existing R300 freeway and will be tolled. The name of the consortium involved in the construction of the Expressway is "Penway", short for Peninsula Expressway. The Penway has also become the local nickname for the Expressway[2]

Explosive growth of the Cape Town metropolitan area, especially in terms of local and international tourism, the wine industry, and the film industry, has pushed the traffic situation to a critical point.[3]

Proposed Intersections[]

The Peninsula Expressway will have junctions with three National Roads, the N1, the N2, and the N7 as well as the M3 and the M5 which are Cape Town metropolitan freeways.[1]

Environment[]

A number of environmental impact studies have been done, to determine whether new sections of the freeway will upset the delicate ecological systems in the Cape Town area. New sections will run south of the N2 towards Zeekoevlei, which is a wetland area, and north of the N1, up to the area near Melkbosstrand[4][5][6]

Projects[]

Project R300[]

During the 1990s and 2000s, the national road agency and Western Cape Department Of Road And Transportation began the final construction of the R300, the first section of the highway[7][8]

Project N21[]

The Peninsula Expressway will have junctions with three National Roads, the N1, the N2, and the N7 as well as the M3 and the M5 which are Cape Town metropolitan freeways.[1] The proposed N21 project requires upgrading the current R300 Road as well as joining it to the N7 highway to form the ring road[7][9]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "RDDA SOUTH AFRICAN NUMBERED ROUTE DESCRIPTION AND DESTINATION ANALYSIS". NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT. May 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Peninsula Expressway (Cape Town)". library.answerthepublic.net. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  3. ^ "Developers quizzed on R300 'promise'". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  4. ^ "cape peninsula - Mountain Passes South Africa". www.mountainpassessouthafrica.co.za. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  5. ^ nowboarding. "Evergreen Noordhoek". Evergreen Lifestyle Villages. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  6. ^ Petersen, L.; Moll, E.; Collins, R.; Hockings, Marc (2012-06-19). "Development of a Compendium of Local, Wild-Harvested Species Used in the Informal Economy Trade, Cape Town, South Africa". Ecology and Society. 17 (2). doi:10.5751/ES-04537-170226. ISSN 1708-3087.
  7. ^ a b "R300 Project | SANRAL". www.nra.co.za/. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  8. ^ "Engineering News - Tenders this year for Cape toll ring road". Engineering News. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  9. ^ Firm), Chand Ecosense JV (South Africa (2002). The Proposed N21 (R300) Cape Town Ring Road Toll Project: Environmental Impact Assessment. Chand Ecosense JV.


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