Stockholm ring road

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Stockholm ring road (Stockholms ringled) is a half-completed ring road around central Stockholm, Sweden. There have been many plans over the years of a ring road around central Stockholm, but all of them have been cancelled at some point, but about half of the ring road is now built.

The latest ring road project in Stockholm has its origin in the Dennis Agreement (Dennisöverenskommelsen) from 1992, which was a political agreement to build new roads and improve the public transport in and around Stockholm. As the agreement was eventually broken in 1997, the future of a complete ring road is uncertain. There is still a possibility of a ring road being completed in an overseeable future as the construction of the northern section will resume in 2006, and there is a new feasibility study being conducted on the eastern section.

[edit] Road sections

There are four distinct sections of the planned ring road around Stockholm, of which two are completed, one in construction, and one planned.

Essingeleden, the western section — inaugurated 1966
Södra länken, the southern section — short section opened 1973, completion inaugurated 2004
Norra länken, the northern section — short segment completed in 1991, construction of the rest halted in 1997, construction planned to resume in 2006, and finalised about 2014.
Österleden, the eastern section — planning cancelled in 1997, new feasibility study recently started due to large population growth in the affected area