{"id":4918,"date":"2016-04-02T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2016-04-02T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T19:07:11","slug":"francistowns-spaghetti-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/francistowns-spaghetti-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Francistown&#8217;s Spaghetti Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anybody looking for plans and renderings of Francistown&#8217;s new Spaghetti Road &#8211; currently under construction and causing all manner of traffic chaos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4920\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti.jpg\" alt=\"Francistown Spaghetti Junction - 3D Render\" width=\"296\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti.jpg 296w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francistown Spaghetti Junction &#8211; 3D Render<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4919\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti-plan.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4919\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti-plan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Francistown Spaghetti Junction - Plan\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti-plan-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti-plan-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti-plan-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/francistown-spaghetti-plan.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francistown Spaghetti Junction &#8211; Plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more-->Some points to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apparently no provision for pedestrian and cycle traffic from the residential zone of &#8220;The Blocks&#8221; on the other side of the river.<\/li>\n<li>No route for traffic coming from the hospital to get into the CBD &#8211; presumably they will have to go to Area A and through to St Patrick Street, or rat-run through residential Minestone past Town Lodge.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;up&#8221; lanes passing Thapama and &#8220;down&#8221; lanes behind Spur are going to make for an interesting one-way system around Ntshe House.<\/li>\n<li>There was one announcement (I think from a Member of Parliament, so take with a pinch of salt) that large trucks would not be allowed on Spaghetti, this is a problem because there is then no through route for the large volumes of heavy vehicles transiting from South Africa to Zambia and points north (some examples of which can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/trucking-botswana\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 Presumably the heavy traffic traffic to Dumela and Ramokgwebana\/Plumtree\/Zimbabwe will have to go through the Blocks, past Marang and through Area A &#8211; all busy residential areas.<\/li>\n<li>Somebody else has observed that there is no provision for &#8220;bus lanes&#8221; (although public transport drivers usually make their own arrangements in this regard).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any other observations, comments and updates would be very welcome.<\/p>\n<p>3D rendering from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.gov.bw\/news-details.php?nid=25702\" target=\"_blank\">Botswana Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo of plans from Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hennymaps\" target=\"_blank\">@hennymaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/hennymaps\/status\/581415907995574272<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anybody looking for plans and renderings of Francistown&#8217;s new Spaghetti Road &#8211; currently under construction and causing all manner of traffic chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,154,9,197],"tags":[302,303,198,304,301,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4923,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions\/4923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}