Editing Transport in Botswana (section)

== Road transport ==
{{Main|Roads in Botswana}}

=== Vehicle population ===
* Botswana had 584,000 locally registered vehicles at the end of June 2019<ref>{{cite web |title=Vehicle population nears 600,000 |url=https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=83310&dir=2019/november/01 |website=MmegiOnline | date=November 2019 |publisher=Mmegi |access-date=1 November 2019}}</ref> - more than double the number compared to 10 years prior. This equates to around 250 vehicles per 1,000 people in the country.
* 30,583 vehicles were registered in the first 6 months of 2019.
* Secondhand imports from Asia and the UK are a significant source of vehicles in Botswana.
[[File:Bus for mass travel.jpg|thumb|Bus on the A1l]]
[[File:Cargo Trucking.jpg|thumb|Cargo Trucking o the A3]]

=== A-roads ===
A-roads are highways and other major roads.
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|'''Road'''
|'''Connections'''
|-
|[[A1 road (Botswana)|A1]]
|Zimbabwe (A7) - Ramokgwebane (B315) - Tshesebe (B311) - Francistown (A3, B162) - Dikabeya (B151) - Serule (A15) - Palapye (A14, B140) - Mahalapye (B145, B147) - Pilane (B130) - Gaborone (A10, A12) - Ramotswa (A11, B111) - Otse (B105) - Lobatse (A2) - Ramatlabama (B202) - South Africa (R503)
|-
|[[A2 road (Botswana)|A2]]
|Namibia (B6) - Charleshill (B214) - A3 (south of Ghanzi) - Morwamosu (B102) - Sekoma (A20) - Kanye (A10, B105, B202) - Lobatse (A1) - South Africa (N4)
|-
|[[A3 road (Botswana)|A3]]
|A2 - Ghanzi - Sehithwa (A35) - Maun (B334) - Matopi (B300) - Nata (A33) - Dukwe (A32) - Sebina (A31) - Francistown (A30, A1)
|-
|[[A10 road (Botswana)|A10]]
|Gaborone (A1, A12) - Thamaga (B111) - Mosopa - Kanye (A2, B105, B202)
|-
|[[A11 road (Botswana)|A11]]
|A1 - Ramotswa
|-
|[[A12 road (Botswana)|A12]]
|Molepolole (B102, B111, B112) - Metsimotlhaba (B122) - Gaborone (A1) - South Africa (R49)
|-
|[[A14 road (Botswana)|A14]]
|Orapa (A30, B300) - Serowe (B145) - Palapye (A1, B140)
|-
|[[A15 road (Botswana)|A15]]
|Serule (A1) - Selebi Phikwe (B157, B150)
|-
|[[A20 road (Botswana)|A20]]
|Sekoma (A2) - Khakhea (B205) - Tshabong (B210, B211)
|-
|[[A30 road (Botswana)|A30]]
|Orapa (A14, B300) - Francistown (A3)
|-
|[[A31 road (Botswana)|A31]]
|Tutume - Sebina (A3)
|-
|[[A32 road (Botswana)|A32]]
|Sowa - Dukwe (A3)
|-
|[[A33 road (Botswana)|A33]]
|Namibia (B6) - Muchenje - Kasane - Pandamatenga (B333) - Nata (A3)
|-
|[[A35 road (Botswana)|A35]]
|Namibia - Shakawe - Sehithwa (A3)
|}

=== B-roads ===
B-roads are smaller distributor roads.
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|'''Road'''
|'''Connections'''
|-
|B102
|Morwamosu (A2) - Molepolole (A12, B111, B112)
|-
|B105
|Kanye (A2, A10, B202) - Otse (A1)
|-
|B111
|Molepolole (A12, B102, B112) - Thamaga (A10) - Ramotswa (A1, A11)
|-
|B112
|Shoshong (B145) - Molepolole (A12, B102, B111)
|-
|B122
|Lentsweletau (B123) - Metsimotlhaba (A12)
|-
|B123
|Lentsweletau (B122) - east
|-
|B130
|Pilane (A1) - Mochudi - Sikwane (B135) - South Africa
|-
|B135
|Malolwane - Sikwane (B130)
|-
|B140
|Palapye (A1, A14) - Sherwood (B141) - South Africa (Grobler's Bridge, N11)
|-
|B141
|Machaneng (B147, B148) - Sherwood (B140)
|-
|B145
|Serowe (A14) - Shoshong (B112) - Mahalapye (A1, B147)
|-
|B147
|Mahalapye (A1, B145) - Machaneng (B141, B148)
|-
|B148
|B140 - Machaneng (B141, B147)
|-
|B150
|Selebi Phikwe (A15) - Sefophe (B150) - Tsetsebjwe
|-
|B151
|Dikabeya (A1) - Sefophe (B151) - Bobonong (B155) - Kobojango
|-
|B155
|Bobonong (B150) - Molalatau
|-
|B157
|Mmadinare - Selebi Phikwe (A15)
|-
|B162
|Francistown (A1, A3) - Matsiloje
|-
|B202
|Kanye (A2, A10, B105) - Ramatlabama (A1)
|-
|B205
|A2 - Khakhea (A20) - south
|-
|B210
|Tshabong (A20, B211) - South Africa (R380)
|-
|B211
|South Africa - Bokspits - Tshabong (A20, B210)
|-
|B214
|Charleshill (A2) - Ncojane
|-
|B300
|Matopi (A3) - Rakops - Orapa (A14, A30)
|-
|B311
|Masunga (B316) - Tshesebe (A1)
|-
|B315
|Zwenshambe (B316) - Moroka - Ramokgwebane (A1)
|-
|B316
|Zwenshambe (B315) - Masunga (B311)
|-
|B333
|A33 - Pandamatenga - Zimbabwe
|-
|B334
|Shorobe - Maun (A3)
|}

=== Motorways ===
Motorways in [[Botswana]] have a set of restrictions, which prohibit certain traffic from using the road. The following classes of traffic are not allowed on Botswana motorways:
* Learner drivers
* Slow vehicles (i.e., not capable of reaching 60&nbsp;km/h on a level road)
* Invalid carriages (lightweight three-wheeled vehicles)
* Pedestrians
* Pedal-cycles ([[bicycles]], etc.)
* Vehicles under 50cc (e.g. [[mopeds]])
* Tractors
* Animals

Rules for driving on motorways include the following:
* The keep-left rule applies unless overtaking
* No stopping at any time
* No reversing 
* No hitchhiking
* Only vehicles that travel faster than 80&nbsp;km/h may use the outside lane
* No driving on the hard-shoulder

The general [[motorway]] speed limit is 120&nbsp;km/h.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2016-04-27 |title=ROADS AND RAILWAYS: Botswana |journal=Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical Series |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=21217C–21219A |doi=10.1111/j.1467-6346.2016.07003.x |issn=0001-9852}}</ref>

=== Road signs ===
[[File:SACU road sign W208.svg|thumb|right|60px|Botswana's old "caution curves" sign]]
[[File:SADC road sign W209.svg|thumb|right|65px|New sign]]
Traditionally, [[road signs in Botswana]] used blue backgrounds rather than the yellow, white, or orange that the rest of the world uses on traffic [[warning sign]]s. In the early 2010s, officials announced plans to begin phasing out the distinctive blue signs in favour of more typical signs in order to be more in line with the neighbouring [[Southern African Development Community]] member states.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://72.167.255.126/index.php?sid=1&aid=821&dir=2011/December/Wednesday21|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121129021003/http://72.167.255.126/index.php?sid=1&aid=821&dir=2011/December/Wednesday21|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 29, 2012|title=Old road signs are being phased out|author="Mmegi Online" staff writer Maranyane Ngwanaamotho|date=Dec 21, 2011|access-date=Oct 5, 2012}}</ref>

=== Interchanges ===
==== Existing ====
* '''Kenneth Nkhwa Interchange''' at the junction of [[A1 highway (Botswana)|A1]] / Blue Jacket Street and [[A3 road (Botswana)|A3]] in [[Francistown]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailynews.gov.bw |title=Hello spaghetti, bye bye traffic circles|newspaper=Botswana Daily News|last=Ketumile|first=Kesentse|date=Jan 25, 2016|access-date=Oct 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014043241/http://www.dailynews.gov.bw/|archive-date=2016-10-14|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.facebook.com/The | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201109035301/http://www.facebook.com/The | url-status = dead | archive-date = November 9, 2020 | title = Francistown Spaghetti Junction Opens for Public Use | newspaper = The Midweek Sun | date = Dec 16, 2016 | access-date = Oct 4, 2017 }}</ref>
* '''Boatle Interchange''' in '''Boatle'''.

==== Under construction ====
The Government of Botswana is building three interchanges along '''K.T Motsete Drive (''Western Bypass'')''' in [[Gaborone]]. This project started in August 2019, and deadline date is set 2022.

=== Longest bridges ===
The [[Kazungula Bridge]] in [[Kazungula]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 October 2018 |title=Kazungula Bridge to be completed |url=https://www.znbc.co.zm/kazungula-bridge-to-be-completed/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104001801/https://www.znbc.co.zm/kazungula-bridge-to-be-completed/ |archive-date=2018-11-04 |access-date=17 November 2018 |work=ZNBC |language=en-US}}</ref> and the [[Okavango River Bridge]] (constructed 2022) in Mohembo are the two longest bridges.

=== Roadway links with adjacent countries ===
==== Existing ====
* Namibia by [[Trans-Kalahari Corridor]].
* South Africa by [[A1 highway (Botswana)]], [[A2 highway (Botswana)]], [[A11 road (Botswana)]] and '''A12 highway (Botswana)'''.
* Zambia by [[A33 road (Botswana)]].
* Zimbabwe by [[A1 highway (Botswana)]].