Public hearings in connection with the proposed capacity improvement on the N3 between Hammarsdale and Pietermaritzburg are ongoing. The expansion has become necessary because that section of the N3 is near full capacity. The plan is that extra lanes will be added and interchanges reconfigured.
The first phase of the upgrading of the R573 Moloto Road – a 137km stretch from Gauteng through Mpumalanga to Limpopo – is almost complete. This included the construction of four roundabouts as well as a butterfly intersection. The total budget for the project is R3.7bn over five to six years.
The extent of closures of the Huguenot Tunnel, scheduled for June 2019 to November 2019, will be clearer once the designs for the maintenance of existing facilities are more advanced. Planning is afoot to take an extra electricity feed from the Drakenstein municipality in addition to the two present Eskom feeds.