Cape Town vs Johannesburg – What’s its like to drive in each city

3WA

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Joburg traffic is fine. The problem is if you live in one of our parasitic neighbours (Fourways, Ekurhuleni, Pretoria, the entire rest of South Africa) and want to travel into Joburg each day.
 

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Joburg traffic is fine. The problem is if you live in one of our parasitic neighbours (Fourways, Ekurhuleni, Pretoria, the entire rest of South Africa) and want to travel into Joburg each day.
Since covid it has been pretty good.
 
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I.am.Sam

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I don't wish driving in cpt while its raining on the worse of my enemies!

10 years ago i used to travel easily to town on the n2

now i look at the n2 and its madness even at 9am

now add rain ...and there is no off peak traffic in CPT
 

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With the exception that ignoring traffic lights, stop streets, traffic and mini circles has seemed to sky rocket.
Allied with utter disregard for lane discipline, merging with intent and care and that curious stupidity of steadily creeping into a red light junction when you do occasionally deign to obey the red light.
 

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Allied with utter disregard for lane discipline, merging with intent and care and that curious stupidity of steadily creeping into a red light junction when you do occasionally deign to obey the red light.

Lanes in Johannesburg are merely a suggestion and you can make your own lane if you want, even if it is not on an actual road.
 

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Growing up and learning to drive in Cape Town, moving up to Joburg was a serious learning curve. The N1 and N3 are survival of the fittest. A few years later, I went back down to the Strand for a long weekend, and nearly drove through a few tannies going 10-20km/h under the speed limit - I’d become so accustomed to going over the limit in Joburg because there was almost always some ******** in an M3 right up my arse.
 

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Growing up and learning to drive in Cape Town, moving up to Joburg was a serious learning curve. The N1 and N3 are survival of the fittest. A few years later, I went back down to the Strand for a long weekend, and nearly drove through a few tannies going 10-20km/h under the speed limit - I’d become so accustomed to going over the limit in Joburg because there was almost always some ******** in an M3 right up my arse.

They were up your arse because you don’t keep left and pass right.
 

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Small tip I always give is if you are driving in Johannesburg (non-highway driving), avoid the left lane. That's the taxi driver lane and they can genuinely stop at any notice - especially on busy roads with stops like Jan Smuts.
 

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Joburg traffic is fine. The problem is if you live in one of our parasitic neighbours (Fourways, Ekurhuleni, Pretoria, the entire rest of South Africa) and want to travel into Joburg each day.
No one drives in to Joburg, they drive into Sandton, Bryanston or anywhere but the CBD
 
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Lupus

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Growing up and learning to drive in Cape Town, moving up to Joburg was a serious learning curve. The N1 and N3 are survival of the fittest. A few years later, I went back down to the Strand for a long weekend, and nearly drove through a few tannies going 10-20km/h under the speed limit - I’d become so accustomed to going over the limit in Joburg because there was almost always some ******** in an M3 right up my arse.
Go to KZN, speed limits are a suggestion, you can have guys attempting to hit 200km/h in the fast lane while another doing 40 in the slow, with everything in between, it's probably why a lot of major accidents happen on their highways.
 

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No one drives in to Joburg, they drive into Sandton, Bryanston or anywhere but the CBD
Fair enough, although the CBD does get congested as well.
These form part of what people mean when they say Joburg, almost excluding the CBD because no one goes there, want daai fokken hoer nes, ja nee kyk.
I refuse to recognize Fourways.
 

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Fair enough, although the CBD does get congested as well.

I refuse to recognize Fourways.
All those foreigners trying to escape it... That's what Twitter keeps telling me
 
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