The R300 or Kuils River Freeway (also Cape Flats Freeway) is a Regional Route in the Cape Metropole, South Africa that connects Mitchells Plain with the N2, Kuils River, and the N1 at Bellville. The R300 is a freeway for its entire length; it forms part of the proposed Peninsula Expressway.^[1][2][3]

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Regional route R300
Route information
Maintained by WCDTPW and SANRAL
Length	22 km (14 mi)
Major junctions
South end	M7 in Mitchell's Plain
Major intersections	M36 near Philippi N2 near Khayelitsha M54 near Blue Downs M12 near Blue Downs R102 near Bellville M23 near Kuils River R101 near Brackenfell
North end	N1 in Brackenfell
Location
Country	South Africa
Provinces	Western Cape
Municipalities	City of Cape Town
Highway system
Numbered routes of South Africa
← R114 → R301

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The R300 begins at the Stellenberg Interchange with the N1 between Bellville and Brackenfell and heads south bordering between both towns. It eventually borders between Bellville and Kuils River and borders between Delft and Blue Downs before intersecting with the N2 (Settlers Way) north of Mitchells Plain and Philippi. It then turns in a south-westerly direction between Mitchells Plain and Phillipi and ends at an intersection with the M7 (Jakes Gerwel Drive) in Mitchells Plain.^[3]

The entirety of the R300 Freeway is part of the proposed Peninsula Expressway, which is to be designated as the N21 and is to be a toll road. This new national route is to include the current R300 freeway as well as extensions at either end of that R300 freeway.^[4][5][6]

The proposed road is meant to extend the current R300 from its northern terminus (Stellenberg Interchange) with the N1 highway, past Durbanville, bending west, up to the Melkbosstrand and Bloubergstrand coastal area.^[7] It is also meant to extend the current R300 from its southern terminus (Mitchells Plain) junction with the M7 route (Jakes Gerwel Drive) westwards, through Zeekoevlei, up to the Muizenberg and Westlake area.^[7]

In August 2022 the Western Cape Department of Transport and Public Works announced the launch of an environmental impact assessment for the extension of the R300 from its current terminus at the N1 northwards to the R302 (Wellington Road).^[8]