[2] The road is split into a two-level route (the south-bound carriageway is elevated on an embankment) and traffic is restricted to fifty miles per hour.

The road serves few businesses except a large waste disposal site in the Kipevu district.

[3] Built in 1929 by the Colonial British Government, the causeway replaced the Britannia Bridge which had been completed in 1899.

The south end of the causeway is the site of an armed police checkpoint.

This is primarily for immigration purposes, but also functions as a traffic policing location.