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Ring road - Definition and Overview |
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A beltway (American English), ring road or orbital motorway (British English) is a circumferential highway found around many cities. Often it originally enclosed the built up area and was later encroached upon by developed areas - and some cities have proposed or built second and even third beltways. In the United States, many beltways are part of the Interstate highway system.
The main purpose of beltways is deflecting some traffic from the city.
List of Beltways Around The World
Africa
South Africa has the most advanced road system of any African country - a legacy of the Apartheid government. Most of the major cities' ring roads were built in the 1970s. Well constructed, they are on par with the best in the Western world.
The list of significant South African metropolitan ring roads are shown here:
Americas
- Capital Beltway - (I-495) - Washington, DC, USA
- Route 128 - Massachusetts State Highway 128 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Perimeter - I-285 - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Baltimore Beltway - (I-695) - Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- I-275 - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Gene Snyder Freeway - Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Watterson Expressway (I-264) - Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- I-465 - Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Tennessee State Route 840 - Nashville, Tennessee (unfinished), USA
- I-270 - Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Perimeter Highway - Winnipeg, Manitoba
- I-435 - Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas City, Kansas metropolitan area, USA
- I-494/I-694 - Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area
- The 610 Loop (I-610) - Houston, Texas,USA
Asia
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Ring Roads - Beijing, China
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ring Roads - Chengdu, China
- Shenyang Round City Expressway - Shenyang, China
- Tangshan Round City Expressway - Tangshan, China
- Inner, Middle and Outer Ring Roads - Tianjin, China
Australia
Europe
- Attiki Odos - Athens, Greece
- Greece Interstate 4 - Thessalonike Beltway - Thessaloníke, Greece
- Greece Interstate 8A - Patras Beltway - Patras, Greece (Roitika to near University of Patras)
- Périphérique - Paris, France
- M25 motorway - London, England
- M50 motorway - Dublin, Ireland
- M60 motorway - Manchester, England
- M30 motorway - Madrid, Spain
- Antwerpse Ring (R1) - Antwerp,Belgium
- Brussels Ring (R0) - Brussels, Belgium
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Example Usage of Ring |
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rosaMtrevino: He liked it so he put a Ring on it! ;) lol |
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JessifromBerlin: http://tweetphoto.com/27a9e4 rock am Ring 09
thats my best friend sarah!she´s from america and we see us every weekends!she´s so cool. |
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tamachan87: The JET desk is always so nice to Ring up. (^_^) |
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