Louis Botha Avenue
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| Maintained by Johannesburg Roads Agency and Department of Roads and Transport (Gauteng) | |
| Length: | 5.8 mi (9.2 km) |
| Existed: | 1880s – present |
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| South end: | Clarendon Place/Willie Street, Hillbrow |
 M31 Houghton Drive, HoughtonM31 Joe Slovo Drive, Berea M16 1st Ave, HoughtonM16 8th St, Orange Grove R25 11 Ave/Louis Road, Orchards M20 Athol St, Highlands North M30 Corlett Dr, Bramley M40 Artwright Ave, Wynberg
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| North end: | Artwright Ave, Wynberg |
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| Numbered routes of South Africa | |
Louis Botha Avenue (part of Johannesburg Metropolitan Route M11) is a major street in Johannesburg, South Africa. Originally part of the main road between central Johannesburg and Pretoria, it runs along through the north-eastern parts of the city from Hillbrow to Sandton, passing through numerous older suburbs, including Houghton and Orange Grove, before it becomes the Pretoria Main Road (later Pretoria Main Road) (R101) which passes Alexandra Township and continues to Midrand and Pretoria.
Louis Botha Ave begins at the top of the Johannesburg CBD in the suburbs of Hillbrow and Berea and then heads north-east passing through Houghton to the north and Yeoville and Bellevue to the south. In Houghton it passes close to the private boys schools of St John's College (1889) and King Edward VII school (1911). After this point the road curves and is ominously nicknamed Deathbend due to the number of car accidents at the spot. The route then enters the suburb of Orange Grove passing the new Victory Theatre (2007), the older one torn down in 2005 which has its origins a cinema in 1929 and renamed after the end of World War Two as the Victory and became a theatre in the early nineties. Radium Beer Hall is on the right. Midway through Orange Grove, the road bends northwards and passes through Orchards and Sydenham and smaller suburbs of Maryvale, Forbesdale, Cheltondale, Rouxville and Hawkins Estate. The road then crosses the M20 at Atholl Road in the suburbs of Highlands North and Waverly. The road crosses Corlett Drive in Bramley before ending a short distance later at Artwright Avenue in the light industrial suburb of Wynberg with the old township of Alexandra close by. The road still designated the M11, continues on though as the Pretoria Main Road.
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