{"id":55645,"date":"2026-08-06T17:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-6-august-2026-plan-for-busy-traffic-construction-activities-and-changing-weather-this-womens-day-long-weekend\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:21:18","slug":"n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-6-august-2026-plan-for-busy-traffic-construction-activities-and-changing-weather-this-womens-day-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-6-august-2026-plan-for-busy-traffic-construction-activities-and-changing-weather-this-womens-day-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"N3 Toll Route | Traffic Advisory | 6 August 2026 \u2014 Plan for busy traffic, construction activities, and changing weather this Women\u2019s Day long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Road users travelling on the N3 Toll Route over the coming long weekend are encouraged to plan their journeys ahead of time, allow for possible delays in construction zones, and remain alert to rapidly changing weather conditions as is common at this time of year.<\/p>\n

Traffic volumes are expected to increase from midday on Friday, 7 August, as travellers head towards tourism destinations in KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State, Mpumalanga, and Gauteng. <\/p>\n

Return traffic is expected to peak on Monday afternoon, 10 August.<\/p>\n

Plan for lane restrictions due to construction activities<\/p>\n

Motorists should expect ongoing road construction activities on three sections along the route, between:
\n– Heidelberg and Villiers (Gauteng \/ Mpumalanga \/ Free State)
\n– Warden and Harrismith (Free State)
\n– Estcourt and Nottingham Road (KwaZulu-Natal)<\/p>\n

Lane closures will be in place throughout the long weekend while construction teams continue their work. At least one lane in each direction will remain open…<\/p>\n

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Road users travelling on the N3 Toll Route over the coming long weekend are encouraged to plan their journeys ahead of time, allow for possible delays in construction zones, and remain alert to rapidly changing weather conditions as is common at this time of year. Traffic volumes are expected to increase from midday on Friday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[852,164,66,313],"class_list":["post-55645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents","tag-free-state","tag-gauteng","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-mpumalanga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}