M3 (Pretoria)
The M3 road is a short metropolitan route in the City of Tshwane in Gauteng, South Africa. It consists of only one road in the Pretoria CBD.
Route
The M3 begins at a junction with the M18 route about 1.3 kilometres north of the M18's interchange with the R21 route, M5 route and M7 route. The M3 begins by heading north-north-east as Nelson Mandela Drive, parallel to the M5 and following the Apies River, to separate the Pretoria CBD in the west from the Sunnyside suburb in the east, where it meets the M11 route and the M6 route.Just after meeting the M6, it reaches a junction with the M2 route. Here, the M2 joins the M3 and they are one road north-north-east up to the next junction, where the M2 becomes its own road eastwards. The M3 continues northwards, still parallel to the M5 and following the Apies River, separating the Pretoria CBD in the west from the Arcadia suburb in the east, meeting the R104 route, to reach its end at a junction with the M4 route.