jhb to pretoria road route?

[Guttersnipe]

I have a tiresome lunch obligation in pretoria tomorrow and am hoping to redeem it by riding there.

 

I am fairly new to Gauteng and can see myself getting it very wrong.

 

Can anyone suggest a relatively low death-index route from the Rosebank area to Lynwood?

 

 

[Canaris]

Can anyone suggest a relatively low death-index route from the Rosebank area to Lynwood?

no.

 

on the best road is the suicide high way (old joburg road)

on a mtb be very wary of routes through centurion especially Smuts house area.

[Bateleur1]

I would suggest passing through the Midrand suburbs west of the N1 and pass Samrand and from Rooihuiskraal shoot over to the east of Pretoria. I do not have street names but has cycled those areas quite a lot.  You could event take the R55 to Pretoria as well.  In general not too bad except for the stretch between Kyalami and the Olifantsfontein road where there is no shoulder.

[Guttersnipe]

Bateleur1's Midrand suggestion sounds best, if perhaps not fastest, although I am less likely to get lost on the old joburg road. Only question is which is more scary, lunch with my wife's relatives, or intercity commuting in Gauteng. I'm hoping if I arrive tired and smelly, possibly injured, they'll all ignore me...