South Africa
Traffic volumes increase as holidaymakers return─── 09:10 Tue, 03 Jan 2023
The N1 highway from Limpopo to Gauteng has been provided with more resources, according to the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC).
This, in an effort to deal with heavy traffic volumes. Major roads leading into Gauteng have seen an increase in traffic since Monday morning.
RTMC spokesperson, Simon Zwane, says the N1 has been identified as a hotspot.
Traffic has also started to peak on some of the major routes in the Free State. Director of Traffic in the Department of Roads and Transport Mamgaliso Xaba says they are maintaining high visibility on major routes.
“Your N1 south and north is busy- that is N1 that is traversing from direction of Cape Town to Gauteng into your Limpopo. It’s starting to peak up now. N3 is also starting to peak up. Off course we have this one that is between Eastern Cape and Free State which is your N6 that is the one that is busy – that is the one you would recall over the 23rd and 22nd we had a number of accidents on it. So, it’d also peaking because I have deployed officers on those roads just to be keep updated from time to time,” elaborates Xaba.
