The M6 road is a long metropolitan route in the

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. It connects

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with a rural area east of

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via

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and

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Route

The M6 route begins in-between

and

, at a junction with the M2 route (Nana Sita Street) and the M1 route (Es'kia Mphahlele Drive). It starts by being a westwards one-way-street named Visagie Street through the Pretoria CBD (eastwards driving is via Nana Sita Street), meeting the R101 Route (Kgosi Mampuru Street; Schubart Street) and the M18 route (Bosman Street; Thabo Sehume Street), up to the junction with the M3 route (Nelson Mandela Drive), where it becomes Kotze Street (no-longer a one-way street). From the M3 junction, the M6 heads eastwards through the Sunnyside suburb, meeting the M5 route (Steve Biko Road; Troye Street), becoming Jorissen Street, to bypass the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, the

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and the

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, where it becomes Lynnwood Road. It passes through the suburb of

, where it meets the M7 route (Jan Shoba Street) and the M30 route (Brooklyn Road). It forms the northern boundary of the Menlo Park suburb before entering

, where it crosses the N1 Highway ( Pretoria Eastern Bypass). On the other side of the N1, it passes in-between

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and

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before passing through

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, where it meets the northern terminus of the M33 route (January Masilela Drive). It then passes through

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, where it meets the southern terminus of the M12 route (Simon Vermooten Road). It then forms the southern boundary of the

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suburb and reaches

, where it meets the M10 route (Solomon Mahlangu Drive). The M6 turns to the south-east and heads for 22 km, becoming Graham Road and bypassing Silver Lakes, through a rural area, to end at a junction with the R25 Route about 11 km north-east of

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(just north of Welbekend).

References

{{Reflist Metropolitan Routes in Pretoria