Convert String to NSURL is return nil in swift

As suggested by the Martin R, I see THIS post and I converted that objective-c code to swift and I got this code:

var url : NSString = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=\(self.latitud‌​e),\(self.longitude)&destinations=\(self.stringForDistance)&language=en-US" 
var urlStr : NSString = url.stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)! 
var searchURL : NSURL = NSURL(string: urlStr)! 
println(searchURL)

and this is working correctly.

For swift 3.0:

let url : NSString = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=\(self.latitud‌​e),\(self.longitude)&destinations=\(self.stringForDistance)&language=en-US"
let urlStr : NSString = url.addingPercentEscapes(using: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue)! as NSString
let searchURL : NSURL = NSURL(string: urlStr as String)!
print(searchURL)