The R396-million, 80 km rehabilitation of the N1 highway between Pretoria and Bela-Bela is 80% complete.
The project should be wrapped up by the end of 2017, with R123-million to be spent next year, said Bakwena Platinum N1N4 CEO Graeme Blewittin Centurion on Wednesday.
The toll-road concessionaire said the rehabilitation effort would increase the design life of the road by ten years.
Bakwena is also fully rebuilding 167 km of single carriageway on the N4 between Rustenburg and the Lobatse border post between Botswana and South Africa.
The value of this project is R1.22-billion. Work has started, and will be completed by mid-2018.
Other upgrades on the 395 km of network under Bakwena’s control include adding 70 km of dual carriageway on the N4 between Pretoria and Rustenburg in a R1.5-billion project.
Bakwena has already added 35 km of dual carriageway on the N4 and Blewitt expected this project to be completed progressively from Pretoria’s direction “in the next four to five years”.
Following assessments of aspects such as queue lengths and traffic capacity at toll plazas, Bakwena is also spending R230-million on selected plaza and interchange upgrades.
