M70 (Johannesburg)

The M70 road is a short metropolitan route in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. It connects Booysens with Dobsonville via Diepkloof, Orlando and Meadowlands. For much of its route, it is known as the Soweto Highway.

Route

The M70 begins at a junction with the M7 route in the Booysens suburb of Johannesburg, just west of the M7's junction with the M27 route. It goes westwards as Ophir Booysens Road, joined by the Pat Mbatha Bus & Taxiway, to fly over the M1 highway and bypass the Booysens Reserve suburb, where it changes its name to the Soweto Highway. It flies over the M17 route and reaches the FNB Stadium in Nasrec, where it forms an interchange with the M5 route before passing north of the stadium.
From the FNB Stadium, the M70 continues westwards as the Soweto Highway to meet the N1 highway and cross it to enter the northern part of Soweto. It forms the northern border of Diepkloof before being the road separating Noordgesig in the north from Orlando East in the south, where it reaches a junction with the M10 route. The M10 joins the M70 and they are one road westwards, crossing a railway into Orlando West, to reach a roundabout, where the M10 becomes the road southwards and the road northwards is meant to be an extension of the N17 national route while the M70 remains as the westerly road.
From the M10/N17 junction, the M70 continues westwards, forming the northern border of Orlando West, becoming Modise street, to pass through Meadowlands, where it changes its name to Van Onselen Road. Immediately after Meadowlands, it reaches its western terminus at a junction with the M77 route at Mmesi Park, just north of Dobsonville.