Talk:R530 (South Africa)

Redirect to R526
I have decided to redirect the R530 article to the R526 article for the following reasons.

For starters, the document we cite in every South African Road Article (i.e. Route Description & Destination Analysis) does not have this route number (R530) listed.

Well, Global Positioning Systems such as Google Maps & OpenStreetMap do show that a certain "25 km road" is indicated as the R530, from the R40 just south of Mica to the R36 just north of The Oaks. Next, I went to Google Street View to view the area, specifically the R40 junction south of Mica, and road signs in the area indicate that the road in question, from Mica to The Oaks, is in fact designated as the R526. The cited document (i.e. Route Description & Designation Analysis) also states that the road in question is part of the roads that form the R526 route.

So, these two sources (Google Street View of the junction just south of Mica and the cited document) prove that the road from Mica to The Oaks is designated as the R526! Now, does this mean the R530 designation does not exist at all?

As already stated, the R530 is not written in the official cited document. But I went back to Google Street View to check out the other end of the road in question (the R36 junction just north of The Oaks) and at that junction, road signs indicate that the road is designated as the R530.

So, while one end of that "25 km road in question" shows the R526 on road signage, the other end of that road shows R530 on road signage. Just this will give people the impression that the entire 25 km route has "two designations" instead of one and we do not need two separate articles talking about the same stretch of road (i.e. the 25 km road).

So, since a road sign exists where "R530" is written, I opted to just redirect the "R530" on Wikipedia to the "R526" as opposed to concluding that "the R530 designation does not exist at all". GeographicAccountant (talk) 17:39, 6 January 2023 (UTC)