The Stockholm Ring Road (Swedish: 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. As of 2007[update], about half of the ring road is now built.
The first plan to build a motorway ring road around central Stockholm arose in the 1950s. The recent 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 public transport in and around Stockholm. As the agreement was eventually broken in 1997 due to criticism from environmental groups and the political parties left outside the agreement, the future of a complete ring road became uncertain.[1]
A possibility of a ring road being completed arose in the mid-2000s, as the construction of the northern section resumed during 2006 with preparatory work, the final appeals against construction were rejected on February 26, 2007 by the Supreme Administrative Court,[2] and actual construction of the road resumed on May 11, 2007.[3] A new feasibility study has been conducted on the eastern section, which is as of 2007[update] awaiting feedback from the County Administrative Board of Stockholm.[4]
There are four distinct sections of the planned ring road around Stockholm, of which two are completed, one in construction, and one under consideration.