[1]: 81  Here it crosses Jan Smuts Avenue (M27) for the first time, continuing to the first junction with the M1 motorway allowing the latter's south bound traffic to enter and exit.

[1]: 81  Passing under the M1, there is another exit for north bound traffic from the M1 to this route as well as access to Yale Road and Wits University.

[1]: 54  Here it meets Jan Smuts Avenue's northern end[1]: 55  and the M71 continues northwards as Bram Fischer Drive into Kensington B passing St Stithians College before crossing Peter Place, Lyme Park (M75) where it becomes Main Road.

In the Crowthorne suburb of Midrand, It becomes Neptune Avenue south-eastwards before becoming Walton Road eastwards.

It ends shortly after at a junction with the R101 (Pretoria Main Road) by the entrance to Grand Central Airport.