List of ring roads
Below is a list of ring roads from around the the world.
Africa
Egypt
Ethiopia
South Africa
Asia
Afghanistan
China
- Ring roads of Beijing: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ring Roads, Chengdu
- Inner Ring Road, Outer Ring Road, Guangzhou
- Shenyang Round City Expressway, Shenyang
- Tangshan Round City Expressway, Tangshan
- Inner, Middle and Outer Ring Roads, Tianjin
- The second and the third ring roads in Xi'an
Cyprus
Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, a circular motorway, Route 9, circles the New Territories and connects all the towns to the north of the cities of Kowloon and New Kowloon. There are also a few other circular roads, such as Western Fire Services Street and Oi Kwan Road in Victoria City on the Hong Kong Island, and the Broadcast Drive in New Kowloon.
India
- Inner and Outer Ring Roads and Elevated Beltways, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Central, Intermediate, Outer Ring Road, and Peripheral Ring Roads, Bangalore, Karnataka
- Delhi Ring Road, Delhi Outer Ring Road and the proposed Western Peripheral Expressway, National Capital Region
- Bandra-Worli Sea Link and the proposed Western Freeway Sea Link, Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Ring Road comprising Rajarhat Expressway (feeds the ring road), Barasat Bypass (northwestern orbital) and Eastern Expressway, Eastern Metropolitan Bypass (Eastern orbital, not a motorway), Calcutta, West Bengal[2]
- Outer Ring Road, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh[3]
- Ahmedabad Bypass, Ahmedabad, Gujarat[4]
- Jaipur Bypass, Jaipur, Rajasthan[4]
- Katraj-Dehu Road Bypass, Pune, Maharashtra
Indonesia
- Jakarta Inner Ring Road
- Jakarta Outer Ring Road (some sections uncompleted)
- Bandung Ring Road (Padaleunyi Toll Road)
- Semarang Ring Road (Arteri Semarang Toll Road)
- Surabaya (Gresik – Gempol Toll Road)
Iran
Japan
Tokyo
Osaka
Daejeon
Malaysia
Johor Bahru
Kuala Lumpur
Penang
Others
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Metro Manila
Thailand
Bangkok
- Ratchadaphisek Road (inner ring)
- Highway 9 Karnchanaphisek Road (grade-separated and controlled access)
- Western Outer Ring Road, Bang Pa In – Suksawad
- Eastern Outer Ring Road, Bang Plee – Bang Pa In
- Southern Outer Ring Road, Bang Plee – Suksawad (to be completed in 2008)
Singapore
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- Still Road South
- Still Road
- Jalan Eunos
- Hougang Avenue 3
- Bartley Road
- Braddell Road
- Lornie Road
- Adam Road
- Farrer Road
- Queensway
- Portsdown Avenue
- Yishun Ring Road, a ring road located in Yishun
- A ring road in Toa Payoh comprising Lorong 1 Toa Payoh and Lorong 6 Toa Payoh
- Minor ring roads in Woodlands
- Woodlands Circle
- Woodlands Ring Road
South Korea
Seoul
Australia
New South Wales
Queensland
Victoria
Western Australia
- Perth Inner Orbital:
- Perth Outer Orbital:
- Perth Bunbury Highway (proposed outer bypass), Bunbury
Europe
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
- R0 (Brusselse Ring), Brussels
- R1 (Antwerpse Ring), Antwerp
- R2 (Wider ringroad, not completely built), Antwerp
- R3, Charleroi
- R4, Ghent
- R5, Mons
- R7, Liège
- R8, Kortrijk
- R9 (smaller ring), Charleroi
- R42 (smaller ring), Sint-Niklaas
Bulgaria
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)
Czech Republic
- R1 expressway (outer ring road), Prague (partially completed)
- Městský okruh (MO) (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
Estonia
- Tallinn ring road (Tallinna ringtee), around Tallinn, Estonian main road nr. 11
- Tartu ring road (Ringtee), around Tartu, most of it is part of Tallinn–Tartu–Võru–Luhamaa road (E263)
Finland
- Kehä 0 (Ring 0), a conceptual approach to routing traffic away from the very centre of the city, to develop greater pedestrian access areas in the centre, the so-called "carless centre". Though this is the least legitimate in the sense of what is commonly thought as a ring road, merely consisting of ways to route traffic, it differs from the other ring roads in that it would consist of a fully circular network of routes around a focal point, rather than I, II and III, which are properly only semicircular, being as they are, limited by the sea on one side.
- Kehä I (Ring 1), encircling Helsinki while also passing through Espoo, for local traffic
- Kehä II (Ring 2), traffic loadout highway through Espoo, for local traffic (Kehä II is not an actual ring road but only a stub – the complete ring is not yet even planned)
- Kehä III (Ring 3), bypass of Helsinki, part of E18, encircling Helsinki through Vantaa, Espoo and Kirkkonummi, for local traffic and long distance traffic[5]
France
- Périphérique, Paris
- A86 autoroute ("Le Superpériphérique"), Paris
- A104 autoroute ("La Francilienne"), Île-de-France region.
- Périphérique de Toulouse (A620, A612), Toulouse
- Périphérique de Lyon (A7, N383), Lyon. West segment is still under construction.
- Rocade de Bordeaux : (A630, N230), Bordeaux
- Périphérique de Caen (N814), Caen
- Périphérique de Lille (A22, A25, N352) Lille
- Périphérique de Nantes (N8444, N249), Nantes. Longest beltway of France.
- Périphérique de Rennes (N136), Rennes
Germany
- Berliner Ring (A 10), Berlin
- Dortmunder Ring (A 1, A 2, A 45), Dortmund
- Cologne Inner Ring (Bundesstraße 9), Cologne
- Cologne Outer Ring (A 1, A 3, A 4), Cologne
- Münchener Ring (A 99), Munich
- Giessener Ring, (A 485, A 480, B 49, B 429), Giessen
Greece
Athens is encircled by the system of Attiki Odos motorway with three main avenues, forming a Π around the Athens Basin. To the northern side, the main section (number 6) connecting Elefsina shipyards-industrial zone with the Athens International Airport in Spata and counts about 50 km. To the western side, Aigaleo Avenue, encircling Mount Aigaleo and to the eastern side, the Hymmetus Ring. As supplementary avenues there are also NATO Avenue, running across the Elefsina Basin next to Mount Aigaleo, Katehaki Avenue, connecting NE (Papagou) and SE (Ilioupoli) suburbs of Athens aligned with Mount Hymmetus and finally Varis-Koropiou Avenue, connecting the vicinity of Athens International Airport and the SE coast of Athens, near the suburb of Voula, in the back side of Mount Hymmetus. To the south side (coast), Poseidonos Avenue (Or "Paraliaki (Παραλιακή): Greek for "Coastal (Road)") runs from Piraeus (Faliro Interchange) to Voula, aligned with the coast, until it meets Varis-Koropiou and then it continues to the countryside 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 Hymmetus 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.
Dublin has three generations of partial ring roads. Due to its location on the sea, there is no complete ring road as yet. with the combined South Circular Road and 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 Outer Ring Road forms the newest partial ring, running along the west of the cities outer suburbs. Eventual plans are to link it to sections of 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
- Ring Amsterdam (A10), Amsterdam
- Ring Rotterdam (A4/A15/A16/A20), Rotterdam
- Ring Utrecht (A2/A12/A27/Zuilensering), 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
- Ring 's-Hertogenbosch
- Ring Leeuwarden
- Ring Maastricht
- Ring Sneek
- Ring Spijkenisse
- Ring Zwolle
- Ring Zoetermeer
- Ringweg Bruinisse
- Ringweg Kats
- Ringweg Harderwijk
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.
- The historical city centre is circled by the P-route, a ring road that passes all the main parking spaces in The Hague-downtown. It is roughly 5 km long.
- The whole agglomeration of the Hague is partly circled by "Randweg Haaglanden". It is made up of the motorways A20, A12 & N11 and it is 65 km long.
Norway
- Oslo Ringveg, Oslo (three ring roads going around the city centre, with a mutual road (E18) in southernmost part of the city)
Poland
Portugal
Romania
- Centura Bucureşti (CB, Bucharest Inner Ringroad) , national road class around Bucharest, currently upgrading to expressway standard;
- Autostrada Centura Bucureşti (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 30th, 2011.
- Autostrada Centura Constanţa (Constanţa West Bypass motorway), part of 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)
- Moscow Small Ring — road A107, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) off MKAD, length is about 320 kilometres (200 mi)
- Moscow Big Ring — 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
Spain
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).
- M-50, which was planned as a full ring but is not "closed" as of 2008, though projects by the 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 M45 runs between the 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:
- B10 motorway, also known as Ronda Litoral coastal lower (south part) ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia)
- B20 motorway, also known as Ronda de Dalt, upper (north parth) ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia)
- B30 motorway, outer half-ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia)
- B40 motorway, the outermost ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia).(In project, known as "Quart Cinturó" (Fourth beltway))
- See also List of autopistas and autovías in Spain
Sweden
- Stockholm ring road (half-completed; northern section under construction, eastern section under feasibility study)
- Malmö Inner Beltway
- Malmö Outer Beltway
Turkey
Most of Turkish metropolitans have beltways with motorway standard.
Ukraine
Kiev 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 road in Ukraine. It was built in 1960–1970s. Road is currently considered significantly outdated and its modernization is expected for continental championship Euro-2010.
United Kingdom
- Ashford – complete ring road round town centre.
- Basingstoke: Basingstoke Ringway, is a complete circular road around the central area of the town, it is a dual-carriage way except for a small unfinished section on the south-western side. A3010, Churchill Way dual-carriage runs through the centre of the ring road connecting the east and western sections via the town centre.
- Birmingham: Birmingham Box orbital motorway (parts of M42, M6 and M5 motorways)[7] and inner (A4400, now partly disrupted), outer (A4040, using redesignated old roads) and intermediate (A4540 'middleway', mostly purpose-built) general-use ring roads.
- Cambridge, Coventry, Oxford, and Reading, Berkshire, Ring Roads around these cities
- Edinburgh, A720 Edinburgh City Bypass,
- Glasgow, Glasgow Inner Ring Road (North and South complete)
- Leeds: Leeds Outer Ring Road, M621, M1, M62, Leeds Inner Ring Road
- London: M25 motorway, South Circular, North Circular, Inner Ring Road, A282
- Sheffield: Sheffield Outer Ring Road, Sheffield Inner Ring Road
- Paisley, Renfrewshire: – complete ring road round town centre.
- Aylesbury: The A4157 road in Aylesbury goes past Stocklake and Weedon Road near the Bicester Rd. near Fairford Leys.
Manchester, England has two ring roads:
- The M60 Orbital Motorway runs 35 miles (56 km) and was created between 1960–2006 by the amalgamation and renumbering of several existing motorways (M62, M63 and M66) and some new build to create an entirely circular route around the city of Manchester and seven neighbouring Metropolitan Boroughs. In 2004, it briefly held the record for the UK's busiest stretch of road (when a part of the M25 was undergoing roadworks); the northern sector of M60 carried an average of 181,000 vehicles per day between junctions 16 and 17.
North America
Canada
Alberta
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Mexico
- Circuito Interior, Mexico City. The inner beltway inside Mexico City proper.
- Libramiento Arco Norte a toll road partly under construction being built around Mexico City.
- Periférico Manuel Gómez Morín, Guadalajara, Jalisco. The ring has a gap: it starts at the Federal Highway 44, circles around the city as a 3+3 lane highway, becomes a 2+2 lane road in the Tonalá municipality, and ends abruptly in the Federal Highway 90.
- Macrolibramiento, Guadalajara, Jalisco. A projected outer beltway that should bypass the city and relieve the current beltway from its heavy cargo traffic. The first section, currently under construction, is a widening of the road to San Isidro Mazatepec, which goes from Federal Highway 15 to the nearby town of Tala.
- Anillo Interno 210, Monterrey, Nuevo León. The beltway is almost a complete 3+3 lane highway. In clockwise it starts in the intersection with Avenida Constitución and continues until Avenida Gonzalitos – Fidel Velazquez, then Avenida Nogalar, Avenida Los Angeles, until the intersection Churubusco – Avenida Constitución. The beltway is a complete freeway except for the part from Avenida Los Angeles – Churubusco until Avenida Constitución (east part of the Beltway).
- Periférico Ecológico, Puebla, Puebla. An incomplete ringroad which passes through most of the municipalities that conform the Metropolitan Area of Puebla.
- Tijuana-Rosarito Autopista, Tijuana, Baja California. Currently under construction, it will form a bypass around Tijuana connecting Federal Highway 2 to Federal Highway 1 in Ensenada.
United States
Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
These ring roads are all unfinished except for I-240/I-40 serving Asheville, I-440/I-40 serving Raleigh, I-277/I-77 and Charlotte Route 4.
- Interstate 140, Wilmington (partial, unfinished)
- Interstate 240/Interstate 40, Asheville
- Interstate 277/Interstate 77, Charlotte
- Interstate 440/Interstate 40 (Beltline), Raleigh
- Interstate 485 (Outerbelt), Charlotte (unfinished)
- Interstate 540 (Outer Loop), Raleigh (unfinished)
- Interstate 840/Interstate 85/Interstate 73 (Painter Boulevard), Greensboro (under construction)
- Interstate 274/Interstate 74 (Winston-Salem Beltway), Winston-Salem (planned)
- Interstate 295/Interstate 95 (Fayetteville Outer Loop), Fayetteville (unfinished)
- Charlotte Route 4 (not a freeway)
Ohio
- Interstate 270, Columbus – Known in Columbus as "The Outerbelt"
- Interstate 90, Cleveland – The confluence of Interstate 90 and the northern termini of Interstates 71 and 77 bypassing Downtown Cleveland (locally known as the "Innerbelt")
- Interstate 271–Interstate 480, Cleveland – Large segments of these two freeways together form a partial beltway (locally known as the "Outerbelt")
- Interstate 275, Cincinnati – The longest completed beltway in the United States
- Interstate 475 (entire length) and Interstate 75 exits 192-204, Toledo
- In the city of Akron, a beltway (albeit rectangular-shaped) is formed by three different Interstates - Interstate 77 travels alone on the eastern part (between exits 122-125), Interstate 76 travels alone on the western part (between exits 18-20), I-76 and I-77 share the northern part (signed as exits 20-23, using I-76 exit numbers), and Interstate 277 forms the entire southern part (4 miles)
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
- Interstate 410 (Loop 410), San Antonio
- Interstate 610 (The 610 Loop), Houston
- Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Tollway), Houston
- State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway), Houston (unfinished)
- Interstate 635/I20 (LBJ), Dallas
- President George Bush Turnpike, Dallas
- State Highway Loop 12, Dallas
- Interstate 820 (Loop 820), Fort Worth
- State Highway 45, Austin (partial beltway around Austin)
- State Highway Loop 224, Nacogdoches
- State Highway Loop 250, Midland
- State Highway Loop 256, Palestine
- State Highway Loop 281, Longview
- State Highway Loop 286, Paris
- State Highway Loop 287, Lufkin
- State Highway Loop 288, Denton
- State Highway Loop 289, Lubbock
- State Highway Loop 304, Crockett
- State Highway Loop 322, Abilene
- State Highway Loop 323, Tyler
- State Highway Loop 335, Amarillo
- State Highway Loop 336, Conroe
- State Highway Loop 337, New Braunfels
- State Highway Loop 338, Odessa
- State Highway Loop 340, Waco
- State Highway Loop 375 (TransMt. Loop), El Paso
- State Highway Loop 485, Gladewater
- State Highway Loop 1604, San Antonio
- Belt Line Road, suburbs around Dallas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
South America
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
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