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| Maintained by Johannesburg Roads Agency and Department of Roads and Transport (Gauteng) | |
| Length | 7.75 mi (12.47 km) |
| Existed | 1890s–present |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | Bertha Street,Braamfontein |
| Major intersections |  M1 Junction 14 Jan Smuts Ave/M27,Parktown M16 Upper Park Drive, Forrest TownWestcliff Drive,Westcliff, Gauteng  R25 Cotswold Drive,Saxonwold M20 Chester Road,ParkwoodBolton Road, Parkwood  M30 7th Avenue,Parktown NorthJellico Avenue,Rosebank  M81 Winnie Mandela Drive,Hyde Park M13 Republic Road,Randburg M71 Bram Fischer Drive, Randburg |
| North end | Bram Fischer Drive,Randburg |
| Location | |
| Country | South Africa |
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Jan Smuts Avenue is a major street inJohannesburg,South Africa. It begins inRandburg, and passes through important business areas likeRosebank. It passes theJohannesburg Zoo,Zoo Lake andWits University before becoming Bertha Street, and theNelson Mandela Bridge near theJohannesburg CBD. It has been described as "the most important road for a tourist" in Johannesburg.[1] It forms part of Johannesburg'sM27 route.
This major northbound Johannesburg road is roughly 12 km long and is mostly a two or three lanedual carriageway. Jan Smuts Avenue begins in Braamfontein's ridge as an extension northwards of Bertha Street around Stiemens Street. It passes the East campus of theUniversity of Witwatersrand on its left and Helpmekaar College on the right before descending into the leafy suburb ofParktown where it crosses over a major intersection with theM71 Empire Road. After crossing Empire Road, passes over theM1 De Villiers Graaff motorway with several entrances and exits at this intersection. Leaving Parktown, the road begins to drop as it descends Parktown Ridge through the hilly and leafy suburbs ofWestcliff andForest Town. As it entersParkview, it passes through the Herman Eckstein Park, with theJohannesburg Zoo to the right andZoo Lake to the left.
Narrowing to single lanes inSaxonwold, Jan Smuts Avenue splits northwards at the Cotswold Drive (R25) winding its way out off Saxonwold and intoParkwood. It resumes as a dual carriageway as it climbs into the retail suburb ofRosebank and leafyParktown North before dropping down intoDunkeld West as a single carriageway. A short while later it resumes as a dual carriageway passes intoHyde Park where at a major intersection close to theHyde Park Corner shopping centre, the road splits north-west when it intersects the start of the Winnie Mandela Drive (M81). It passes throughCraighall andCraighall Park, crossing theBraamfontein Spruit. It then enters the oldRandburg suburbs ofBlairgowrie andBordeaux intersecting Bram Fischer Drive inFerndale where Jan Smuts Avenue ends.
Jan Smuts Avenue is named after theSecond Boer War general and Prime Minister of theUnion of South AfricaJan Smuts. On 3 July 1917, the Federation of Ratepayers Association recommended to theCity of Johannesburg that two main roads in Johannesburg be named afterLouis Botha and Jan Smuts, in honour of their service to the British Empire duringWorld War I.[2]: 39 Prior to the road's renaming in 1917, it was known as the Pretoria Road.[3]
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