R21 road (South Africa)

Regional Route R21
Route information
Maintained by SANRAL and GDRT
Major junctions
North end:	Nelson Mandela Street in Pretoria
	N1 in Centurion R25 near Tembisa R23 near Kempton Park R24 at OR Tambo Int'l N12 near Boksburg R29 in Boksburg N17 near Boksburg
South end:	N3 at Vosloorus
Location
Major cities:	Pretoria, Centurion, Tembisa, Kempton Park, Boksburg, Vosloorus
Highway system
Regional Roads of South Africa ← N18 R22 →

The R21 is a major north-south Regional Route (with a freeway portion designated as a National Road) in eastern Gauteng Province, South Africa^[1]. Built in the early 1970's, it remains the only other freeway (apart from the N1) that links Pretoria with Johannesburg, via the R24. As the eastern of the two freeways, it links the Pretoria city centre with OR Tambo International Airport, the N12 freeway, and Boksburg. Between the Hans Strijdom Road on-ramp in Monument Park, Pretoria, and the N12 in Boksburg, the R21 is an 8 lane highway and motorway (freeway), with 4 lanes in each direction.^[2] It has off-ramps leading to Irene, Olifantsfontein, Benoni, and Kempton Park, including a partial offramp to Atlas Road. The route intersects the N1 Eastern Pretoria Bypass near Centurion, the R24 near the airport, the N12 and N17 in Boksburg, and the N3 near Vosloorus on the East Rand, where it ends. The section from the N12 to the N3 is not a freeway. As early as the 1970's there were proposals to extend the R21 freeway further south, and part of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Scheme may in future link this freeway with the current eastern terminus of the M2 in Germiston.

The R21 is the lowest "R" designated route number in South Africa, since numbers 1-20 have been reserved for national route numbers. However a portion of the R21 where is exists as a freeway, from Hans Strijdom Drive in Pretoria, to the N12 Freeway in the East Rand is both a national road and a toll road.

References

1. ^ [www.info.gov.za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=85826]
2. ^ "Engineering News, 26 March, 2010"

External links

• Routes Travel Info
• Esorfranki Limited 2010 Annual report