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| Maintained byCity of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality | ||||
| Length | 12.2 km (7.6 mi) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| East end |   N1 /N4 nearHatfield | |||
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| West end |  M22 at Proclamation Hill | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | South Africa | |||
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TheM2 road is ametropolitan route in theCity of Tshwane inGauteng,South Africa. It connects theN1 andN4 highways at the Proefplaas Interchange with Proclamation Hill viaHatfield,Pretoria CBD andPretoria West.[1][2][3][4]
The M2 starts at the Proefplaas interchange with theN1 highway (Pretoria Bypass) and theN4 highway (Maputo Corridor) inPretoria East, just north of the Scientia suburb. It heads west to pass through theHatfield suburb, becoming two one-way streets (Pretorius Street westwards from the N1 and Francis Baard Street, formerly Schoeman Street,[5] eastwards to the N1) and meeting theM7 route (Gordon Road; Jan Shoba Street).[6]
AtArcadia, the M2 meets theM5 route (Hamilton Street; Steve Biko Road) and immediately afterwards, it meets theM3 route (Nelson Mandela Drive). The M2 leaves Pretorius Street and Francis Baard Street to join the M3 on Nelson Mandela Drive southwards up to the next junction, where the M2 becomes Nana Sita Street (formerly Skinner Street[5]) westwards.[6]
It passes through thePretoria CBD westwards as Nana Sita Street, meeting theM18 route (Thabo Sehume Street; Bosman Street) and theR101 route (Sophie de Bruyn Street; Kgosi Mampuru Street). Just after the Pretoria CBD, the M2 reaches a junction, where it meets the southern terminus of theM1 route (Es'kia Mphahlele Drive) and the western terminus of theM6 route (Visagie Street), where it crosses intoPretoria West.[6]
It once again becomes two one-way streets (Charlotte Maxeke Street, formerly Mitchell Street,[5] westwards and Soutter Street eastwards) through Pretoria West, before becoming one street westwards (Charlotte Maxeke Street) and reaching its end at a junction with theM22 route (Quagga Road) at Proclamation Hill.[6]
Together with theM4 route, the section of the M2 route from the Proefplaas Interchange nearHatfield to the M5 junction inArcadia was previously part of theN4 national route, which connects theMozambique Border in the east with theBotswana Border in the west. It was part of the main route from the east of Pretoria to the west of Pretoria.
Then, the N4 was realigned on a new highway known as thePretoria Bypass, which forms part of thePlatinum Highway maintained by Bakwena,[7] in order for the city centre to be bypassed to the north and east.[8] The old route through Pretoria Central, specifically from the Proefplaas Interchange to the M5 junction, was then re-designated as the M2Metropolitan Route of Tshwane,[9] although some Global Positioning Systems still label this old route as the N4 together with the newer route north of Pretoria.
