M9 (Johannesburg)

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Joburg road M9.svg
Metropolitan route M9
Route information
Maintained by Johannesburg Roads Agency and Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport
Length29 km (18 mi)
Major junctions
South endM34 ZAF jct.svg M34 Turf Club Street, Turffontein
Major intersectionsM2 ZAF jct blue.svg M2 Eloff Street Interchange
SA road R29.svg R29 Anderson Street, Marshalltown
SA road R24.svg R24 Commissioner Street, Johannesburg
M10 ZAF jct.svg M10 Smit Street, Braamfontein
M18 ZAF jct.svg M18 Jorissen Street, Braamfontein
M71 ZAF jct.svg M71 Empire Road, Parktown
M1 ZAF jct blue.svg M1 Oxford Road North Interchange
M16 ZAF jct.svg M16 Eastwold Way, Riviera
SA road R25.svg R25 11th Avenue, Riviera
M20 ZAF jct.svg M20 Glenhove Road, Melrose
M30 ZAF jct.svg M30 Corlett Drive, Illovo
M75 ZAF jct.svgM85 ZAF jct.svg M75  / M85 Sandton Drive, Sandhurst
M64 ZAF jct.svg M64 West Street, Sandown
M40 ZAF jct.svg M40 Grayston Drive, Sandown
M74 ZAF jct.svg M74 South Road, Morningside
SA road N1 jct.svg N1 (Western Bypass), Woodmead
SA road R564.svg R564 Witkoppen Road, Sunninghill
North endSA road R55.svg R55 Woodmead Drive, Barbeque Downs
Location
Country South Africa
Highway system
M8 ZAF jct.svg M8 M10 ZAF jct.svg M10

The M9 is a major metropolitan route in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. Passing through the heart of the Witwatersrand, it connects the southern suburbs of Johannesburg via the centre of Johannesburg, with the northern suburbs and business centres of Rosebank and Sandton before ending in the outer northern suburbs. [1] [2]

Route

The M9 begins at a T-junction with the M34 (Turf Club Street) in Turffontein. [3] :129 From this junction, it heads north as Turffontein Road passing the Turffontein Racecourse on its right. [3] :129 After passing Wembley Stadium, the road becomes Eloff Street, passing over a railway track into Village Deep. [3] :108 The M9 interchanges with the M2 freeway, passing under it to enter the Johannesburg CBD. [3] :108 In Marshalltown, it reaches an intersection with the R29 (Anderson Street; Marshall Street), where it joins the R29 westwards before turning north to become Rissik Street (one-way street). [3] :108 As Rissik Street, it proceeds to cross the R24 (Commissioner Street and Albertina Sisulu Road), where it passes the old Johannesburg City Hall. [3] :108 Continuing north through the CBD, it crosses over the John Rissik Bridge and the railway lines of the Johannesburg Park Station, the city's main railway station, and into Braamfontein, where it meets the M10 (Wolmarans Street & Smit Street). [3] :108 Climbing the ridge, the road splits left, becoming Loveday Street, passing the Joburg Theatre on its left and the Civic Buildings to the right. [3] :81 At the top of the ridge, it turns right onto Hoofd Street and then left onto Joubert Street, passing the Old Fort and the Constitutional Court of South Africa on Constitutional Hill. [3] :81 The road now descends the hill heading north towards Parktown, passing the old Transvaal Memorial Hospital for Children and the old maternity hospital, intersecting and crosses the M71 Empire Road. [3] :81

Now called Victoria Avenue, the M9 passes Pieter Roos Park, crossing St Andrews Road and then passes the Wits Business School, the University of the Witwatersrand's Education Campus and the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital. [3] :81 At the intersection with Oxford Road, the M9 turns right to become Oxford Road and is briefly parallel with the M1 North freeway before crossing under it, heading north-east. It meets the M16 (Eastwold Way) and turns north in Killarney before it is intersected by the R25 (Cotswald Drive; 11th Avenue) in Riviera. [3] :82 Crossing the M20 (Bolton Road; Glenhove Road), it passes in-between the commercial area of Rosebank to the left and the suburb of Melrose to the right. [3] :56 As it passes Jellicoe Avenue, the M9 turns north-east and passes by Dunkeld and Melrose. [3] :56 Shortly after passing the M30 Corlett Drive, the route turns north-west as Rivonia Road and heads through Hyde Park and Illovo. [3] :56 In Sandhurst, the road turns north-east again and crosses the M75 Sandton Drive and M85 Katherine Street into the Sandton central business district. It then meets the M64 West Street. [3] :56

Turning north-west in the Sandton CBD, it leaves the area, crossing the M40 Grayston Drive into Benmore Gardens and Sandown before turning north-east into Morningside. [3] :34 Crossing Kelvin Drive into Rivonia, the M9 Rivonia Road now kinks north-west, then north, as it passes through Edenburg, the suburbs main commercial area. [3] :16 The M9 proceeds to intersect and cross under the N1 highway (Western Bypass) at the Rivonia Road Interchange before meeting the R564 Witkoppen Road and continuing north into Paulshof and Sunninghill. [3] :16 After a short distance it becomes Leeukop Road and at the entrance to Leeukop Prison, the road turns north-east as Malindi Road and after 2.4 km in Barbeque Downs the road ends at a T-junction with the R55 Woodmead Drive. [3] :6

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References

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  2. "Johannesburg Road Agency Q2 2021 Report" (PDF). Johannesburg Road Agency Website. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
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