M20 (Johannesburg)

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Joburg road M20.svg
Metropolitan route M20
Route information
Maintained by Johannesburg Roads Agency and Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport
Length17 km (11 mi)
Major junctions
West endM8 ZAF jct.svgM13 ZAF jct.svg M8  / M13
Major intersectionsM30 ZAF jct.svg M30 Tana Road
M71 ZAF jct.svg M71 Barry Hertzog Avenue
M27 ZAF jct.svg M27 Jan Smuts Avenue
M9 ZAF jct.svg M9 Oxford Road
M1 ZAF jct blue.svg M1 De Villiers Graaff Motorway
M31 ZAF jct.svg M31 Central Street
M11 ZAF jct.svg M11 Louis Botha Avenue
East endSA road R25.svg R25 Modderfontein Road
Location
Country South Africa
Highway system
M19 ZAF jct.svg M19 M22 ZAF jct.svg M22

The M20 is a short metropolitan route in Johannesburg, South Africa. [1] [2] It connects Randburg in the western part of Johannesburg with Edenvale in the east.

Route

The M20 begins at the intersection of M8 Judges Avenue and M13 Republic Road in Cresta. [3] :54 The route winds its way south as Republic Road, passing Cresta Shopping Centre on its right and then rounds the northern end of the Darrenwood Dam. [3] :54 It then heads south-east, still as Republic Road, through the suburb of Linden, crossing 1st Street and becoming 3rd Avenue until it reaches the intersection with M30 Tana Road. [3] :54 Crossing the latter and a tributary of the Braamfontein Spruit it becomes Linden Road in Emmarentia and after a short distance turns left into Gleneagles Road, travelling east through Greenside and crossing the M71 Barry Hertzog Avenue. [3] :55 The M20 continues east? then south-east, still as Gleneagles Road, crossing the Braamfontein Spruit and Parkview Golf Course. [3] :55 It then continues northeast as Derry Road, then as Chester Road on the border of Parktown and Parkwood before turning east and crosses the intersection of the M27 at Jan Smuts Avenue, becoming Bolton Road in Rosebank and then reaches the M9 Oxford Road in the same suburb. [3] :56

Crossing Oxford Road into Melrose, the M20 continues as Glenhove Road, turning slightly northeast and soon intersects the M1 North motorway. [3] :56 Crossing the motorway, it enters Oaklands as Pretoria Street, briefly co-signed with M31 heading northeast. [3] :56 Shortly after it crosses the Orange Grove Spruit in Waverley and Highlands North, it breaks away from Pretoria Street heading northeast very briefly as Woodyatt Avenue before heading east as Atholl Street passing the schools of St Mary's and Waverley Girls' High School. [3] :57 Shortly after those two sites, it intersects the M11 Louis Botha Avenue. [3] :57 Having crossed the latter, the M20 heads briefly past Balfour Park Shopping Centre where it splits heading northeast as Northview Road in Bramley Gardens then becomes Johannesburg Road. [3] :57 At the intersection with Drone Road, it becomes Pretoria Road and heads east then south-east where it ends ar a t-junction with the R25 Modderfontein Road west of Edenvale. [3] :58

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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 Street Guide Witwatersrand (8th ed.). MapStudio. 1996.