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Lower-risk driving routes in Gqeberha

Gqeberha is the first Eastern Cape metro on the map, and coverage is the whole of Nelson Mandela Bay rather than the old Port Elizabeth town limits: the beachfront and the city centre, the Northern Areas, Motherwell and the northern townships, and Kariega and Despatch in the west. The N2 and the M4 tie it together, and the R75 out to Kariega carries most of the commuting.

254risk zones mapped
30in the top band at midday
101in the top band after dark

What the data looks like here

254 mapped areas across Gqeberha.

Every area is rated three times over, once each for daytime, evening and night, because risk in South African metros does not hold still across a day. Here is how Gqeberha’s 254 areas fall across the bands at each of those hours.

Figures read directly from the live database, not typed by hand. The lowest band means an area was checked and carries no routing penalty, which is different from an area we have no data for. No area in the country is rated worse by day than it is at night, so the night bar is also the worst case.

  • Daytime05:00 to 17:30 12%
  • Evening17:30 to 19:30 25%
  • Night19:30 to 05:00 40%

The right-hand figure is the share of Gqeberha’s mapped areas sitting in the highest band at that hour.

  • Highest avoided by default on the strictest setting
  • Elevated always costed, avoided on the strictest setting
  • Caution costed but never avoided, since it is too widespread to route around
  • No penalty checked and carries no routing cost
View as table
Gqeberha: mapped areas by risk band, for each time of day
Time of dayHighestElevatedCautionNo penalty
Daytime30921266
Evening64711136
Night10114166

Driving here

What matters on Gqeberha’s roads

  • The N2 is mapped end to end from Colchester in the north-east through to the western edge of the metro, and so is the M4 Settlers Freeway between the centre and the beachfront. Neither gets a blanket protective rating; both pass close to areas that carry a real penalty, so each stretch is rated on its own.
  • The R75 and the old R102 are the everyday commuter roads for the west of the metro, out toward Kariega and Despatch. Both are mapped.
  • The beachfront from Kings Beach to Summerstrand is rated separately for each time of day. It carries a modest rating in daylight and a higher one after dark, which is when most visitors are driving between the hotels and the Boardwalk.

Tsamaya rates roads and routes. It does not publish a list of neighbourhoods, and the app never labels a place for anyone other than the driver about to pass through it.

Questions

Common questions about Gqeberha

Does Tsamaya cover Kariega and Uitenhage?

Yes. Kariega, Despatch and KwaNobuhle are all inside the mapped area, along with the R75 and the N2 that connect them to the city.

Does it cover the drive from the airport?

Yes. Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport sits inside the mapped area, so the trip from the terminal to the beachfront or the city is planned with risk data from the first turn.

Also mapped

Other metros

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Drive Gqeberha with the risk on the map.

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