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Lower-risk driving routes in West Rand

Roodepoort, Krugersdorp, Randfontein and the mining belt west of Johannesburg. It is a smaller map than those for the metros to the east and a noticeably different one, because a large share of it has been checked and rated as carrying no penalty rather than simply having nothing recorded.

130risk zones mapped
26in the top band at midday
57in the top band after dark

What the data looks like here

130 mapped areas across West Rand.

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 West Rand’s 130 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 20%
  • Evening17:30 to 19:30 25%
  • Night19:30 to 05:00 44%

The right-hand figure is the share of West Rand’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
West Rand: mapped areas by risk band, for each time of day
Time of dayHighestElevatedCautionNo penalty
Daytime26453920
Evening33542320
Night57431020

Driving here

What matters on West Rand’s roads

  • The N14 and the R28 are the two routes most West Rand driving depends on, and both are mapped end to end.
  • Plenty of the West Rand has been checked and found to carry no penalty. That is different from having no data at all. One means we looked, the other means we have not got there yet.
  • The run into Johannesburg on the N1 and the M5 is covered the whole way, since both metros are live.

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 West Rand

Does Tsamaya cover Krugersdorp and Roodepoort?

Yes, both are inside the mapped West Rand area, along with Randfontein and the surrounding routes.

Why does the West Rand have fewer zones than Johannesburg?

It is smaller and less densely populated, so there is genuinely less to map. The lower count reflects the size of the place, not how well we have covered it.

Also mapped

Other metros

Johannesburg Gauteng 800 zones Cape Town Western Cape 909 zones Pretoria Gauteng 486 zones Ekurhuleni Gauteng 732 zones Secunda Mpumalanga 63 zones Stellenbosch Western Cape 32 zones Rustenburg North West 98 zones Pilanesberg North West 43 zones Mossel Bay Western Cape 58 zones Durban KwaZulu-Natal 791 zones Gqeberha Eastern Cape 254 zones

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