R55 (Gauteng)
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| Maintained by GDRT (Woodmead past Laudium), City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality | ||||
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 R80 in Pretoria
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 N14 near Centurion
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| South end: | M1 near Sandton | |||
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| Major cities: | Pretoria, Centurion, Sandton | |||
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Numbered routes of South Africa
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Numbered routes of South Africa
The R55 is a north-south provincial route in South Africa that connects Pretoria with Sandton, and is also designated as the P66-1 and K71 (newly constructed dual carriageway sections) by the Gauteng Provincial Government.
It passes Woodmead, Kyalami, Olievenhoutbosch, Heuweloord, Sunderland Ridge, Erasmia, Laudium, Claudius, West Park, the Daspoort Tunnel and Danville.
It connects with the M1, N14, and R80 highways.
Although parts of the road in Johannesburg were widened in 2005, other single-lane sections of the Route, especially in Centurion, were in a dangerous state, due to the high volumes of traffic and presence of heavy vehicles causing the road surface to deteriorate.
Renovation of a section in Centurion between the N14 and M10/Wierda Road intersection near Sunderland Ridge began in 2007, with construction largely completed by September 2010. The large Monavoni Circle was replaced with traffic lights, and a dual carriageway was built in this section, with surfaced shoulders to replace the existing narrow two-lane single carriageway.
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