N3 Eastern Bypass (Johannesburg)
The first section of the freeway opened in 1971, from Buccleuch to the interchange with Main Reef Road in Germiston.This is one reason why Germiston is listed as the southbound destination of this route, from the Buccleuch to Geldenhuys Interchanges, rather than to the Elands Interchange south of Germiston.(Main Reef Road is now an overbridge)[1][2][3] Much of the highway forms a border between Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni.It ends at the Buccleuch Interchange, where it merges with the N1 Western Bypass and M1 freeways.[4][5][6][7] The entire Eastern Bypass was part of the Gauteng e-Toll Project and had open road tolling from 3 December 2013[8] up until e-tolls were discontinued in Gauteng on 12 April 2024.