List of ring roads

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Below is a list of ring roads from around the world.

Africa

Egypt

Ghana

Morocco

Nigeria

South Africa

Main article: Ring Roads in South Africa
Johannesburg Ring Road

Asia

China

See also: Ring roads of Beijing
  • 6th
  • Ring Roads of Shanghai:
    G1501 Shanghai Ring Expressway
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th (formerly 1st Chengdu bypass highway) and 5th Ring Roads (formerly 2nd Chengdu bypass highway), currently exist in Chengdu and a new 3rd bypass highway (6th ring road) is under construction and scheduled for completion in 2017.
  • G0102 Changchun Ring Expressway
  • Inner Ring Road, Outer Ring Road, Guangzhou
  • Shenyang Ring Expressway, Shenyang
  • Tangshan Ring Expressway, Tangshan
  • Inner, Middle and Outer Ring Roads, Tianjin
  • The second and the third ring roads in Xi'an
  • Third Ring Road of Wuhan

Hong Kong

The ring road that circles the New Territories area of Hong Kong.

In

motorway, Route 9, as known as New Territories Circular Road, circles the New Territories
and connects all the towns to the north of New Kowloon.

India

Indonesia

Iran

Japan

Fukuoka

  • Expressway
    • Fukuoka Expressway Circle Route (35 km, 60–80 km/h)

Nagoya

Osaka

Sendai Metropolitan Area

  • Expressway
    • Gurutto Sendai (58.9 km, 70–100 km/h)

Greater Tokyo Area

Expressways of the Greater Tokyo Area

Malaysia

George Town

Johor Bahru

Kuala Lumpur

Others

Nepal

Pakistan

Philippines

Metro Manila

Singapore

South Korea

Seoul

Daejeon

Gwangju

  • Ring Road, a complete ring road consisting:
    • Honam Expressway (route 25), northern portion
    • Route 77, the eastern, western and southern portion

Thailand

Bangkok

Northern Thailand

  • Ayutthaya – Route 32, 347 and 356, a complete outer ring road
  • Ayutthaya – U Thong Road, a complete inner ring road, surrounding old city
  • Chiang Mai – Route 121, a complete outer ring road
  • Chiang Mai – Route 11 and 1141, a partial inner ring road
  • 11
    , 12 and 117
  • Suphanburi
    – Route 357, a complete ring road linking routes 321, 322, 329 and 340.
  • Saraburi – Route 362, a complete ring road linking routes 1 and 2.

North Eastern Thailand

  • Buriram – Route 288, a complete ring road linking routes 218, 219 and 226
  • Khon Kaen – Route 230, a complete ring road linking Route 2 and Route 12
  • Roi Et – Route 232, a complete ring road linking routes 23, 214 and 215
  • Ubon Ratchathani – Route 231, a complete ring road linking routes 23, 24, 212, 217 and 226
  • Udon Thani – Route 216 'By pass Road', a complete ring road linking Route 2 with Routes 22 and 216

South Eastern Thailand

Southern Thailand

  • Surat Thani – complete ring road consisting of routes 401, 417 and 420
  • Trang – Route 419, a complete ring road linking routes 4, 403 and 404

Turkey

Most of Turkish metropolitans have beltways with motorway standard.

Vietnam

Hanoi

Ho Chi Minh City

  • Partial ring road consisting:
    • National Route 1 (QL 1A), northern portion
    • Nguyen Van Linh, southern portion
    • Vanh Dai, incomplete eastern portion

Australia

Australia

Australian Coast or nearby – Highway 1, ring road surrounds all of Australia

New South Wales

Queensland

Victoria

Western Australia

Europe

Austria

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Bulgaria

  • Sofia ring road

Croatia

  • Zagreb bypass (A2, A3, A4)
    • A second, 160 km (99 mi) bypass (proposed signing is A15) was announced to be part of the 2009–2012 four-year construction plan)
  • Rijeka bypass (A7)

Cyprus

Czech Republic

  • D0 motorway (outer ring road), Prague (partially completed)
  • Městský okruh (inner ring road), Prague (partially completed)
  • Road I/31 (Hradec Králové)
  • Big City Ring (Velký městský okruh) in Brno
  • Brno City Ring (Brněnský městský okruh, vnitřní městský okruh), the inner ring in Brno
  • the three old Prague rings (I, II, III) and many rings in other cities are not special express ring roads but routes signed on common streets and roads

Denmark

  • Copenhagen City Ring (O2) and Outer Rings O3, O4, Motorringveje 3 og 4)

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Sounio Avenue, towards Sounio and Lavrio
.

The quality of the encircling system varies from motorway of high standards and fully computerised control and service (northern section of Attiki Odos) to more simple two-lanes avenue, like Aigaleo Avenue. Most of the system, maybe except the mountainous parts (Aigaleo, Katehaki and Hymettus Ring), is a high-speed traffic system of roads. Usually the most speedy traffic is noticed on the coastal Poseidonos Avenue, thus making it need increased attention.

Hungary

Iceland

  • Route 1, which circles the entire country

Ireland

All ring roads listed are not arranged from previously existing roads.

North Circular Road
forming the oldest, and inner pair dating from the 19th century.

The M50 motorway forms the middle, most complete and most heavily trafficked (85k-90k cars/day) ring road with an eventual plan to form a complete ring via an undersea tunnel or bridge.

The

R121 road
which provides a similar service in the north west of the city, with land being reserved for this.

In addition, Dublin City Council has signed two "orbital routes" consisting of existing roads, but following these requires turning at many junctions.

Italy

Netherlands

The S100 that circles central Amsterdam (yellow) and the larger A10 (red) and its numerous connecting highways.
  • Ring Amsterdam (A10), Amsterdam
  • Ring Rotterdam (A4/A15/A16/A20), Rotterdam
  • Utrecht
  • Centrumring Amsterdam (S100)
  • Ring Almelo
  • Ring Almere
  • Ring Alkmaar
  • Ring Alphen aan den Rijn
  • Ring Apeldoorn
  • Ring Barendrecht
  • Ring Den Haag
  • Ring Eindhoven (inner) and Randweg Eindhoven (A2/A67, outer; incomplete)
  • Ring Enschede
  • Ring Franeker
  • Ring Groningen, Groningen
  • Ring 's-Hertogenbosch
  • Ring Leeuwarden
  • Ring Sneek
  • Ring Spijkenisse
  • Ring Zwolle
  • Ring Zoetermeer
  • Ringweg Bruinisse
  • Ringweg Kats
  • Ringweg Harderwijk
  • Buitenring Parkstad

The Hague is circled by four ring roads:

  • The "Ring" is the main ring road, roughly 34 km long; It is also called the "International ring".
  • Around the city centre, there is the "CentrumRING", roughly 11 km long.

Norway

Poland

Kraków rings: existing, built and planned.

Portugal

Romania

  • Centura București (CB, Bucharest Inner Ringroad) , national road class around Bucharest, currently upgrading to expressway standard;
  • Autostrada Centura București (ACB, Bucharest Outer Ringroad), a motorway-class road circling Bucharest, currently in planning stages
  • Sibiu bypass: The 17.5 km of motorway as a part of A1 motorway forming a partial beltway around Sibiu was fully completed on August 30, 2011.
  • Autostrada Centura Constanţa (
    A4
    , currently under construction, estimated completion – end of 2011

Russia

Moscow, Russia has three beltways:

  • MKAD
     — Moscow Ring Road, which follows city borders, is approximately 109 kilometres (68 mi)
  • road A107
    , about 25 kilometres (16 mi) off MKAD, length is about 320 kilometres (200 mi)
  • road A108
    , about 80 kilometres (50 mi) off MKAD, length is about 550 kilometres (340 mi)

Moscow Central Ring Road
is a planned road which will consist of parts of Moscow Small Ring and Moscow Big Ring. Planned length is about 442 kilometres (275 mi), it will be opened in 2015.

Inside the Moscow city limits there are three ring roads: the central Boulevard Ring, which is generally two lanes each way with narrow tree-lined parks between the carriage ways; the Garden Ring, which has at least four lanes each way and no gardens; and the Third Ring Road, which was constructed in the late 1990s and early 2000s and combined existing roads and new highways. A fourth ring, between the Third Ring and the MKAD, is planned.

Slovenia

  • Ljubljana bypass
    (Obvoznica)

Serbia

Plan of the Belgrade bypass, with major interchanges:
  Existing highways
  Section A, Batajnica-Dobanovci
  Section B, Dobanovci-Bubanj Potok
  Section C, Bubanj Potok-Pančevo

Spain

Madrid
.

Madrid, Spain is served by three beltways:

  • M-30, which at a mean distance of 5.17 kilometres (3.21 mi) to the Puerta del Sol has been overtaken by the city in most of its 32.5 kilometres (20.2 mi) length.
  • M-40, which borders Madrid at a mean distance of 10.07 kilometres (6.26 mi), with connections to the southern metropolitan towns and projects westwards to reach Pozuelo de Alarcón for a total length of 63.5 kilometres (39.5 mi).
  • Autonomous Community of Madrid
    to connect both ends through a tunnel are being aired. It is 85 kilometres (53 mi) long and services mainly the metropolitan area at a mean distance of 13.5 kilometres (8.4 mi).

Also, the half-loop

M40 and the M50 at the east, where the two beltways are more separated; and there are plans to build a fourth full loop, the M60
, which would be over 120 kilometres (75 mi) long and encompass the whole metropolitan area of Madrid. This proliferation of orbital motorways is partially due to the traditional high radiality of the Spanish highway network, which routed most cross-country traffic through Madrid.

Other Spanish beltways include:

Sweden

  • Stockholm Ring Road (half-completed, eastern section under feasibility study)
  • Malmö Inner Ring Road
  • Malmö Outer Ring Road
  • Linköping Inner Ring (C-ring) and Outer Ring (Y-ring)
  • Västerås

Ukraine

Kyiv has 3 beltways:

  • Small Beltway – completed
  • Great Beltway – only west half-belt is complete, through further extension is frozen.
  • Second Great Beltway – currently under construction.

Kharkiv has one of oldest ring roads in Ukraine. It was built in 1960–1970s. The road has been maintained in preparation for UEFA Euro 2012.

Other cities that have ring roads include:

United Kingdom

North America

Canada

Alberta

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

Nova Scotia

Ontario

Quebec

Saskatchewan

Mexico

Colonia Condesa and Colonia San Miguel Chapultepec
, looking east in Mexico City.

United States

Alabama

Arkansas

Arizona

California

Colorado

Connecticut

  • Interstate 491
    (unfinished Hartford Beltway)

District of Columbia

Main article:
List of circles in Washington, D.C.

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

  • Boston
    (not fully circumferential due to city's seaside location)
  • Interstate 495, Boston (not fully circumferential due to city's seaside location)
  • I-495 forms part of a complete beltway around
    strip mall in Methuen
    ).

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Nebraska

  • Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

Main article:
List of traffic circles in New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

These ring roads are all unfinished except for I-240/I-40 serving Asheville, I-840/I-85/I-73 serving Greensboro, I-440/I-40 serving Raleigh, I-485 and I-277/I-77 and Charlotte Route 4.

Other Freeway loops

Nonfreeway loops

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Interstate 610 map, Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Wisconsin

South America

Argentina

Brazil

Map of Feira de Santana

Chile

  • Santiago

See also

List of longest ring roads

References

  1. ^ Hyderabad Growth Corridor | Outer Ring Road Project | Envisioning The Future
  2. ^ kartta.hel.fi Archived 2012-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-08-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Highways Agency – M42/M5/M6 (Birmingham Box) Route Management Strategy Archived 2008-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
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