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4cer

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So after quite a while house hunting, the best one found, has been in lonehill. Now ill be needing to get to sunninghill in the morning and obviously back in the afternoon. I know there is going to be traffic, but how much is the issue :) the house is right at the bottom, on turley road, literally just off Witkoppen. So i should be ahead of all the "lonehill traffic" or am i wrong ? What is witkoppen like to rivonia road ?

Also it seems it is closish to that shopping centre with billy the bums etc. So it could be quite noisy around that area at night :/

other than that, anything else i should know ?
 
I live in Lonehill for about 5 years, but I live off Sceales Road.

Buying in Lonehill, will be the best choice you will ever make. The only issue with your side of Lonehill, is the condition of the roads, minor bumps on the road due to the underground water. However the LRA maintains all the roads quite well. Every street has a street sign. All roads are clearly marked. LRA also does not allow any bill boards or posters on the street light poles. All in all this makes Lonehill an incredibly clean area. THe LRA all the parks are well maintained and cleaned.

Lonehill is probably one of the the safest areas in Jhb, and cleanest. The Lonehill residents association maintains the area brilliantly. Grass on the verges are cut regularly,
You are quite far away from Billys, so I doubt you will have any issues.

Welcome to Lonehill
 
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You working at PwC? :)

If you are - just remember, you will be working at your client and not at the office for 9/12 months of the year :)
 
Griz said:
You working at PwC? :)

If you are - just remember, you will be working at your client and not at the office for 9/12 months of the year :)
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Yes :)

i just thought it better to be more central, to get to clients. Lonehill seems the best, you dont want to be too much on the fourways side, cause that is a nightmare to get out of.

It seems like a nice area though. ANyone know if the virgin active there is nice :)
 
AS you say, traffic is an issue ... I want to KILL some days :/

Just today took 50 minutes from Montecasino to Cambridge - 4km or so. Getting to PwC I'd reckon an hour every day (not sure how bad the traffic is after Cambridge though)
 
Lonehill = traffic. Unless you work from home or you get to work at 6 and leave after 6 then go for it.
 
Yeah the entire area is pretty rubbish traffic wise & prone to freak traffic jams that are 10x worse on random days. :(

Traffic is going to be *** pretty much everywhere though in that general vicinity, so just deal with it. Plus its only like 7km.
 
My mate moved to Lonehill from Pretoria East against my advice... His job was at PWC and later in Houghton. He realised he got to work quicker coming from Pretoria than he did from Lonehill. Nice area but traffic will make you climb a bell tower...
 
As I sit here I've done 1.5km in 30 minutes ...I'd really reconsider
 
So many better places to stay. I still cannot fathom why people would live anywhere near fourways.

instead of going back down witkoppen, look further forward and also inwards like bryanston area.
 
Lonehill is an awesome suburb - I take my doggy for walks there by the lake/pond whatever its called.
Some great shops and restaurants but I wouldn't live there if I had to commute to work, traffic is just too bad.
 
eish.. even if i am starting at leslie avenue (the road before main road robots)? i know its 6km to the office, but i suppose getting down witkoppen is a major issue! i thought it would take me like 30 minutes. Right now i am in rand park ridge, and it takes about an hour to get to Sunninghill in the morning.
 
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did the drive this morning :) took me 30 minutes to sunninghill. Not ideal, but not bad.
 
Cool. It won't be consistent though so budget 2x that and bring a book (or work).
 
4cer said:
did the drive this morning :) took me 30 minutes to sunninghill. Not ideal, but not bad.
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How?
What time?

This morning took 30 minutes from Porsche to Cambridge on Witkoppen - all of 1.5KM.
 
Anywhere near Leslie, Witkoppen or Main is bad. Main/Witkoppen traffic lights are out most of the time. Around Leslie/Pineslopes not a week goes by without a bumper bashing. I need to travel from Broadacres to Bryanston and on a good day it's 30 minutes (during holidays its about 10 minutes). On a semi-bad day it's about 45 minutes and when the whole of Fourways/Lonehill grinds down, it's about 90 minutes.

I think it will only get worse once etolls start shifting all traffic onto Cedar, Main and William Nicol.
 
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