A ring road is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist in reducing traffic volumes in the urban centre, such as by offering an alternate route around the city for drivers who do not need to stop in the city core. Ring roads can also serve to connect suburbs to each other, allowing efficient travel between them.
The Boulevard Périphérique, often called the Périph, is a controlled-access dual-carriageway ring road in Paris, France. With a few exceptions, it is situated along Paris's administrative limit.
The 3rd Ring Road is a 48-kilometer (30 mi)-long city ring road that encircles the city center of Beijing.
Beijing possesses multiple ring roads.
The Outer Ring Road in Tianjin, China is a city express road, 71.322 kilometres in length, which encircles Tianjin municipality.
The Outer Ring Road is a 6-lane ring road that encircles the city of Delhi. It has three lanes in each direction, with a total length of 47 km. Although it used to have traffic lights and at-grade intersections, mushrooming interchanges have reduced the number of lights to just two, and traffic now flows much more smoothly. Several stretches of the Outer Ring Road have been notified as National Highways.
The Moscow Automobile Ring Road, or MKAD (МКАД), is a ring road running predominantly on the city border of Moscow with a length of 108.9 km (67.7 mi) and 35 exits. It was completed in 1962. The speed limit is 100 km/h.
The A4150 Wolverhampton Inner Ring Road is a ring road that encircles the city centre of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, England. The circumference of the road is around 2.1 miles (3.4 km). Technically, the route is listed as an "Inner Ring Road", although only a tiny section of the "Outer Ring Road" was ever constructed with only one of the two designed carriageways built. A second carriageway was built in 2017 along a short stretch between Patshull Avenue and Stafford Road. The section of outer ring road is called Wobaston Road and classified as U119.
The R710 road is a regional road in Ireland. Located in the south of Ireland at Waterford, it forms the Outer Ring Road around the south of the city. As of December 2006 it commences on the Old Kilmeaden Road at Knockhouse Lower, west of Waterford City and ends at a junction with the R683 on the Dunmore Road in the south-east of the city.
Inner–outer directions are labels that identify the direction of travel on opposing lanes of traffic on certain ring roads or beltways. They can be used to sign individual routes that encircle a city or metropolitan area, where east–west and north–south orientations cannot be applied uniformly. The labels are also used in select double track rail systems that form a loop, indicating the direction of travel of each line.
The Outer Ring Road, officially as, Jawaharlal Nehru Outer Ring Road and abbreviated as, O.R.R., is a 158 kilometer, 8-lanes ring road expressway encircling Hyderabad, capital of the Indian state of Telangana. The expressway is designed for speeds up to 100 km/h, which later increased to 120 km/h. A large part, 124 km of the 158-km was opened by December 2012.
The Kanchanaphisek Bridge is a cable stayed bridge crossing the Chao Phraya river in Samut Prakan Province, Thailand. It is part of the Outer Ring Road encircling Bangkok. The bridge was opened to traffic on 15 November 2007 and has a main span of 500 meters. the bridge's name was bestowed upon by King Bhumibol Adulyadej following the Golden Jubilee celebrations, 'Kanchanaphisek Road', meaning 'Golden Jubilee Bridge'. The bridge is 52 meters above sea level to allow cargo vessels to enter and exit. The bridge is the first bridge in Samut Prakan Province across over the Chao Phraya River that connect Phra Pradaeng District on the east and west side.
The Shanghai Ring Expressway, designated G1503, formerly designated as A30 and G1501, and also known as the Shanghai Suburb Ring Expressway, is a 209.22-kilometre-long ring expressway (130.00 mi) that encircles Shanghai, a direct-controlled municipality in the People's Republic of China. It is entirely in Shanghai, except for a small section in the nearby province of Jiangsu at its northwest end.
The Jakarta Outer Ring Road is a tolled ring road encircling Jakarta, Indonesia. It is divided into 7 sections, totalling up to 65 kilometres (40 mi). The JORR is managed by four toll road companies: Jakarta Lingkar Baratsatu, Marga Lingkar Jakarta, Hutama Karya and Jalantol Lingkarluar Jakarta.
Kathmandu Ring Road is an eight-lane ring road circling around the cities of Kathmandu and Lalitpur. The total length of the Ring Road is 27 kilometres (17 mi). It has a right of way of 62m.
National Highway 230, also known as Kisan Path or Lucknow outer ring road is a National Highway in Uttar Pradesh, India. The Lucknow outer ring road is an 8-lane wide and 104 km long under-construction road project. The 11 km long Ayodhya road to Sultanpur road has already been constructed by the Uttar Pradesh PWD.
London Ring Road may refer to:
The Outer Ring Road is a 69-kilometre (43 mi) long ring road expressway under construction, encircling the city of Warangal, Telangana, India.
The Ring Road is a 21-kilometre (13 mi), six-lane ring road encircling the city of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is built by Indore Development Authority (IDA).
