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Lower-risk driving routes in Pretoria

Pretoria sits at the top of the busiest commuter run in the country, and a good share of the driving here is the daily trip down the Ben Schoeman and back. The city has a tight, dense centre wrapped in long arterial roads, which gives it a very different shape from Johannesburg.

513risk zones mapped
119in the highest band
3ratings per zone, by time of day

What the data looks like here

513 mapped areas across Pretoria.

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. The split below is how Pretoria's 513 zones fall across the bands at their highest rating.

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.

  • Highest 119 23%
  • Elevated 121 24%
  • Caution 205 40%
  • No penalty 68 13%
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Pretoria: 513 mapped zones by risk band
BandZonesShareHow routing treats it
Highest11923%avoided by default on the safest setting
Elevated12124%always costed, avoided on the safest setting
Caution20540%costed but never avoided, since it is too widespread to route around
No penalty6813%checked and carries no routing cost

Driving here

What matters on Pretoria's roads

  • The Ben Schoeman and the N4 both carry protective ratings. An early version of the data flagged a stretch of the Ben Schoeman badly enough that it would have pushed traffic onto side roads. A validation check caught it before it shipped.
  • Pretoria has proportionally more middle-band areas than anywhere else we cover, so routes here tend to get a small nudge rather than a full detour.
  • The CBD and the areas immediately around it change rating between the daytime and evening bands more often than the outer suburbs do.

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 Pretoria

Does Tsamaya cover all of Tshwane or just central Pretoria?

The mapped area covers the Tshwane metro, including Centurion, Mamelodi, Atteridgeville and the eastern suburbs, not only the central city.

Is the Ben Schoeman commute covered end to end?

Yes. The N1 between Pretoria and Johannesburg is mapped from both ends, and both metros are live, so a trip across the two is treated as one drive rather than stopping at a boundary.

Also mapped

Other metros

Johannesburg Gauteng 828 zones Cape Town Western Cape 918 zones Ekurhuleni Gauteng 742 zones West Rand Gauteng 158 zones Secunda Mpumalanga 63 zones Stellenbosch Western Cape 32 zones

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