M3 (Cape Town)
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The M3 is an
M4
(Main Road), which was the original road connecting central Cape Town with the settlements to the south.
Route
The M3 begins at a traffic light on Buitengracht Street (the
M62) and runs south-east as Buitensingel Street, a dual-carriage roadway. For the next three kilometres it runs south and then east through Gardens; it changes names regularly, being named Orange Street, Annandale Road, Mill Street and Jutland Avenue. At Roeland Street, which is numbered as Exit 1, the M3 becomes a grade separated dual carriageway and takes on the name Philip Kgosana Drive, named after an activist who led a peaceful march along the road in 1960.[1] Prior to 2017, this section was named De Waal Drive, after Sir Frederic de Waal, the first Administrator of the Cape Province, who commissioned the road.[2]
This section of the M3 runs eastwards across the north face of
N2
Nelson Mandela Boulevard section (formerly Eastern Boulevard).
Around Hospital Bend, the M3 is
Rondebosch, and part of Newlands. It separates these suburbs from the Table Mountain National Park
, except where the Upper Campus of the University is located west of the freeway.
In
M4) in the east, which continues southwards along the False Bay coast to Muizenberg, Fish Hoek, and Simon's Town; and with Ou Kaapse Weg (the M64) in the west, which crosses the Silvermine mountains to Noordhoek
.
Original plans were for the M3 to continue southwards as a freeway, as can be seen by the unfinished strips of tar under the bridge.
The M3 passes through the following suburbs:
- Cape Town CBD
- Gardens
- Vredehoek
- Zonnebloem
- Woodstock
- Observatory
- Mowbray
- Rosebank
- Rondebosch
- Newlands
- Claremont
- Bishopscourt
- Wynberg
- Constantia
- Meadowridge
- Bergvliet
- Tokai
- Kirstenhof
References
- ^ Petersen, Tammy (25 August 2017). "Cape Town's De Waal Drive renamed in honour of Philip Kgosana". News24. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
- ^ "History of Chapman's Peak Drive". Retrieved 6 July 2017.
