Circumferential Highway
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A circumferential highway is a major, usually limited access road that follows a circular route around a city, town, or some other entity. Common terms for such highways include orbital road, beltway, or ring road, although other such roads have been referred to as "circumferential highways" exclusively. The following highways have been, at some time, named "circumferential highways":
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[edit] Canada
Nova Scotia Highway 111, known as the Dartmouth Circumferential Highway.
[edit] United States
- The Circumferential Highway, a parially built unnumbered bypass route around Nashua, New Hampshire.
Massachusetts Route 128, originally known as the Circumferential Highway, later renamed as the Yankee Division Highway.
Vermont Route 289, the Chittenden County Circumferential Highway.
Interstate 495 around Washington, D.C. was known as the Circumferential Highway during its planning.
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