R25 (South Africa)

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SA road R25.svg
Provincial route R25
Map of the R25 (South Africa).svg
Route information
Maintained by GDRT, MDPWRT and RAL
Length194 km (121 mi)
Major junctions
Southwest endM27 ZAF jct.svg M27 Jan Smuts Avenue, Saxonwold, Johannesburg
Major intersectionsSA road N3 jct.svg N3 near Greenstone Hill
SA road R23.svg R23 near Kempton Park
SA road R21.svg R21 near Thembisa
SA road R50.svgSA road R51.svg R50  / R51 in Bapsfontein
SA road R42.svg R42 near Bronkhorstspruit
SA road N4 jct.svg N4 in Bronkhorstspruit
Northeast endSA road N11 jct.svgSA road R33.svg N11  / R33 in Groblersdal
Location
Country South Africa
Major cities
Highway system
← SA road R24.svg R24 → SA road R26.svg R26

The R25 is a provincial route in South Africa that connects Johannesburg with Groblersdal via Kempton Park, Bapsfontein and Bronkhorstspruit. [1] [2]

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Route

The R25 begins in the suburb of Saxonwold, just north of the Johannesburg Zoo, at an intersection with Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg's M27 road. It heads eastwards, meeting Johannesburg's M9 road (Oxford Road) and meeting Johannesburg's M1 freeway (De Villiers Graaff Motorway; southbound access only), up to the junction with Louis Botha Avenue, Johannesburg's M11 road, where it joins the road northwards up to the next junction, where it continues by a right turn. It makes its way north-east through the suburb of Sandringham, crossing the Jukskei River, bypassing Edenvale Hospital, before crossing the N3 Highway (Johannesburg Eastern Bypass) as a dual carriageway and passing by Greenstone Hill, where Greenstone Shopping Mall is located.

It continues north-east as Modderfontein Road, with Greenstone Shopping Mall on the southern side and Longmeadow Business Estate on the northern side. After meeting the M37 municipal route from Edenvale and the M54 municipal route from Alexandra in Greenstone, the R25 bypasses Modderfontein to the south and crosses the border between the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. It then goes through the western and northern suburbs of the city of Kempton Park.

In Kempton Park, it first passes by the area separating Kempton Park West from Esther Park, where it crosses the M39 municipal route (Zuurfontein Avenue), the road between Isando in the south and Midrand/Thembisa in the north. It then becomes the road separating Edleen and Van Riebeeck Park from Terenure. It then becomes the road separating Birchleigh from Norkem Park and Birchleigh North. Then, it passes the last suburb of Kempton Park, which is Esselen Park, where it reaches a t-junction with the M57 municipal route, just north of the M57's junction with the R23 route from Benoni.

The R25 joins the M57 northwards for 800 metres up to the next junction (a 4-way junction) near Thembisa, where the R25 becomes the road to the right (east). Right after, it crosses the R21 highway between Pretoria and Johannesburg International Airport and makes a direct line for Bapsfontein. The distance is 20 km between Kempton Park and Bapsfontein.

At Bapsfontein, the R25 meets the R50 from Pretoria and joins it going south-east for 1.6 km up until the junction with the R51 from Daveyton (the main four-way junction of Bapsfontein). At that junction, as the R51 is the road south-west to Daveyton, the R25 becomes the same road heading north-east from that junction towards Bronkhorstspruit while the R50 continues south-east to Delmas. While pointing towards Bronkhorstspruit, the R25 meets the eastern termini of the M30 and M6 municipal routes, which are coming from Garsfontein and Lynnwood in Pretoria East respectively, as well as the southern termini of the R515 and the R568.

The R25 meets the north-eastern terminus of the R42 just north of the Bronkhorstspruit Dam right before turning north and entering Bronkhorstspruit in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. It intersects with the N4 Highway (Maputo Corridor) and the R104 road (both coming from Pretoria in the west) and goes northwards through Bronkhorstspruit. The distance is 40 km between Bapsfontein and Bronkhorstspruit.

Afterwards, the R25 temporarily goes into Mpumalanga, where it intersects with the R544 from Witbank in the town of Verena, before proceeding into Limpopo province, where it passes through Dennilton before ending in the vicinity of the small farming town of Groblersdal, terminating at a junction with the N11 and the R33. The distance is 110 km between Bronkhorstspruit and Groblersdal.

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References

  1. ↑ "RDDA SOUTH AFRICAN NUMBERED ROUTE DESCRIPTION AND DESTINATION ANALYSIS". NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT. May 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "Gauteng Roads and Transport on Albertina Sisulu highway corridor (English)". 24 October 2013. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
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