De Waal Drive
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| Route information | |
| Maintained by the City of Cape Town | |
| Length: | 23 km (14 mi) |
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| North end: | Buitengracht Street (M62) in the Cape Town CBD |
| South end: | Steenberg Road (M42) in Westlake |
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| Numbered routes of South Africa | |
The M3 is an expressway in Cape Town, South Africa, connecting the upper part of the City Bowl to the Southern Suburbs and ending in Tokai. For most of its route it parallels - though further to the south and west - the M4 (Main Road), which was the original road connecting central Cape Town with the settlements to the south.
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 De Waal Drive, named after Sir Frederic de Waal, the first Administrator of the Cape Province. In 2017 a committee of the City of Cape Town recommended the renaming of De Waal Drive in honour of Philip Kgosana, an activist who led a peaceful march along De Waal Drive in 1960.
The De Waal Drive section of the M3 runs eastwards across the north face of Devil's Peak to Hospital Bend, located immediately next to Groote Schuur Hospital, where it intersects with the N2 Nelson Mandela Boulevard section (formerly Eastern Boulevard).
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