[1]: 109  The motorway continues westward past the Kaserne Railyards to the Maritzburg Street Interchange.

[1]: 108  It then passes shortly over the M11 Mooi Street allowing traffic to exit the M2 East and enter the M2 West.

[1]: 107  The M2 continues westward to the Crown Interchange that allows vehicles from M1 South to head east or west along the M2.

[2]: 577  Two 10-year plans examined among other things the idea of new urban motorways and improving existing highways.

[2]: 578 A two-three-lane motorway was planned with large medians for breakdowns, elevated where required, and the speed limit set at between 80 and 100 km/h (50 and 60 mph).

[2]: 577–8  The motorway is named after City of Johannesburg councilor J. F. Oberholzer, who was the head of the council's Works and Traffic committee.

[3]: 328  A third section involved the reconfiguration of roads to form an eastern CBD bypass connecting the north–south motorway with Saratoga Avenue.

[3]: 328  Where Harrow Street (Joe Slovo Drive) met Louis Botha Avenue in Berea, this was to become an underpass of the latter.

[3]: 328 The construction on the Sivewright Road / Berea Street and the Siemert Road / End Street reconfiguration, important to connecting the future eastern bypass with the M1 in northern suburbs, at the proposed Killarney interchange, with the M2 East at the proposed Heidelberg Interchange, was nearing completion.

[3]: 329  Contracts were also issued for the planning of the Heidelberg Interchange and its connection to Harrow Road (Joe Slovo Drive) bypass.

[3]: 328  Where Harrow Street (Joe Slovo Drive) met Louis Botha Avenue in Berea, this had become an underpass of the latter.

[3]: 331 Work on the Siemert Road / End Street route making up part of the eastern bypass was completed.

Seventy kilometres of drainage pipes were laid and 500,000 cubic metres of concreted poured.