List of ring roads
list some of the longest ring roads in the world.
| Rank | Name | Distance (miles) |
Distance (kilometers) |
Year completed | Location | Country | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Route 1 | 828 | 1,332 | 1974 | Iceland | ||
| 2 | G95 Capital Area Loop Expressway | 584 | 940 | 2016 | Beijing Capital Area | China | |
| 3 | Peripheral Expressway | 168 | 270 | 2018 | National Capital Region | India | |
| 4 | Bejing 6th Ring Road | 140 | 220 | 2010 | Beijing | China | |
| 5 | M25 motorway | 117 | 188 | 1975-1986 | Greater London,England | United Kingdom | |
| 6 | Rodoanel Mário Covas | 110 | 177 | 2002-2019 | Greater São Paulo | Brazil | |
| 7 | Texas State Highway Loop 1604 | 94 | 151 | 1977 | San Antonio, Texas | United States | |
| 8 | Texas State Highway Beltway 8 | 88 | 141 | 1983 | Greater Houston,Texas | United States | |
| 9 | Moscow Ring Road | 67 | 109 | 1961 | Moscow | Russia |
Below is a list of ring roads from around the world.
Contents
1 Africa
1.1 Egypt
1.2 Morocco
1.3 Nigeria
1.4 South Africa
2 Asia
2.1 Afghanistan
2.2 China
2.3 Hong Kong
2.4 India
2.5 Indonesia
2.6 Iran
2.7 Japan
2.8 Malaysia
2.9 Nepal
2.10 Pakistan
2.11 Philippines
2.12 Thailand
2.13 Singapore
2.14 South Korea
2.15 Vietnam
3 Australasia
3.1 Australia
4 Europe
4.1 Austria
4.2 Azerbaijan
4.3 Belarus
4.4 Belgium
4.5 Bulgaria
4.6 Croatia
4.7 Cyprus
4.8 Czech Republic
4.9 Denmark
4.10 Estonia
4.11 Finland
4.12 France
4.13 Germany
4.14 Greece
4.15 Hungary
4.16 Iceland
4.17 Ireland
4.18 Italy
4.19 Netherlands
4.20 Norway
4.21 Poland
4.22 Portugal
4.23 Romania
4.24 Russia
4.25 Slovenia
4.26 Serbia
4.27 Spain
4.28 Sweden
4.29 Turkey
4.30 Ukraine
4.31 United Kingdom
5 North America
5.1 Canada
5.2 Mexico
5.3 United States
6 South America
6.1 Argentina
6.2 Brazil
6.3 Chile
7 See also
8 References
Africa
Egypt
Autostrad road, Cairo
Cairo Ring Road, Cairo
Morocco
Rabat Ringroad, Rabat
Nigeria
Ring road, Benin City
Bauchi ring road, jos
South Africa
Johannesburg Ring Road
Durban Outer Ring Road
Peninsula Expressway, Cape Town
Pretoria Bypass
Asia
Afghanistan
Highway 1 (Afghanistan)
China
See also: Ring roads of Beijing
Ring roads of Beijing: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th
Ring Roads of Shanghai: Inner Ring Road, Middle Ring Road, S20 Outer Ring Expressway, G1501 Shanghai Ring Expressway
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th (formerly 1st Chengdu bypass highway) and 5th Ring Roads (formerly 2nd Chengdu bypass highway), currently exist in Chengdu and a new 3rd bypass highway (6th ring road) is under construction and scheduled for completion in 2017.
G0102 Changchun Ring Expressway
Inner Ring Road, Outer Ring Road, Guangzhou
Shenyang Ring Expressway, Shenyang
Tangshan Ring Expressway, Tangshan
Inner, Middle and Outer Ring Roads, Tianjin
The second and the third ring roads in Xi’an
Inner Ring Road, Second Ring Road and Third Ring Road of Wuhan
Hong Kong
The ring road that circles the New Territories area of Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong, a circular motorway, Route 9, as known as New Territories Circular Road, circles the New Territories and connects all the towns to the north of New Kowloon.
India
Outer Ring Road, Largest in the nation, about 158 km, 8-lane ring road Inner Road Road, Hyderabad[1]
Inner and Outer Ring Roads and Elevated Beltways, Chennai
Central, Inner Ring Road, Outer Ring Road, and Peripheral Ring Roads, Bangalore
Delhi Ring Road, Delhi Outer Ring Road and the proposed Western Peripheral Expressway, Eastern Peripheral Expressway National Capital Region
Bandra-Worli Sea Link and the proposed Western Freeway Sea Link, Mumbai
Outer Ring Road, Nagpur
Outer Ring Road, Amaravati
Jaipur Bypass, Jaipur
Pune Ring Road, Pune
Coimbatore bypass, Coimbatore
Mysore Ring Road, Mysore
Jodhpur Ring Road, Jodhpur
Outer Ring Road, Trivandrum
Sardar Patel Ring Road, Ahmedabad
Gulbarga Ring Road, Gulbarga
Rourkela Ring Road, Rourkela
Mandalsera Ring Road, Bageshwar
Varanasi Ring Road Phase I, Varanasi
Indonesia
Jakarta Inner Ring Road
Jakarta Outer Ring Road 1
Jakarta Outer Ring Road 2 (One section completed)
Bogor Outer Ring Road
Bandung Ring Road (Padaleunyi Toll Road)
Semarang Ring Road (Arteri Semarang Toll Road)
Surabaya (Gresik – Gempol Toll Road)
Iran
Azadegan Expressway: Tehran Southern and Western Ringway
Basij Expressway: Tehran Eastern Ringway
Agharabparast Expressway – Shahid Radanipour Expressway – Chamran Expressway – Kharrazi Expressway – Shahid Keshvari Expressway – Shahid Meysami Expressway – Habibollahi Expressway – Sayyad Shirazi Expressway – Mirza Kouchak Khan Expressway – Aghababaei Expressway – Shohadaye Soffeh Expressway – Kayyam-Khorram Expressway: These are known as Esfahan’s third Traffic Ring
Shahre Rey Ring Expressway
Tehran Second Ring Expressway
Shiraz Ringway
Tabriz Northern Freeway
Tabriz Southern Freeway
Japan
Fukuoka
Expressway
Fukuoka Expressway Circle Route (35 km, 60–80 km/h)
Nagoya
Expressway
Nagoya Expressway Ring Route (10.3 km, 50–60 km/h)
Osaka
Expressway
Hanshin Expressway Loop route (10.3 km, 50–60 km/h)
Sendai Metropolitan Area
Expressway
Gurutto Sendai (58.9 km, 70–100 km/h)
Greater Tokyo Area
Expressways of the Greater Tokyo Area
Expressway
Tokyo Expressway
Shuto Expressway C1 Inner Circular Route (14.8 km, 50 km/h)
Shuto Expressway C2 Central Circular Route
Tokyo-Gaikan Expressway
Ken-O Expressway (Includes Chiba-Tōgane Road, Shinshōnan Bypass, Yokohama Ring Expressway)
Tokyo Bay Ring Road (Shuto Expressway B Bayshore Route, Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line)
Kantō Ring Road (Kita-Kantō Expressway, Jōshin-etsu Expressway, Chūbu-Ōdan Expressway)
National Highway
Japan National Route 16
Japan National Route 298 (Parallel to Tokyo-Gaikan Expressway)
Japan National Route 357
Local Highway
Tokyo Ring 1 (Uchibori-dori, Eitai-dori, Hibiya-dori, Harumi-dori)
Tokyo Ring 2 (Sotobori-dori, Shin-ohashi-dori, Tokyo Highway 483, Tokyo Highway 484)
Tokyo Ring 3 (Kiyosumi-dori, Kasuga-dori, Gaien-higashi-dori, Kototoi-dori, Mito Highway, Mitsume-dori)
Tokyo Ring 4 (Gaien-nishi-dori, Tokyo Highway 437, Meiji-dori, Maruhachi-dori)
Tokyo Ring 5-1, 5-2 (Meiji-dori)
Tokyo Ring 6 (Yamate-dori)
Tokyo Ring 7 (Kannana-dori)
Tokyo Ring 8 (Kanpachi-dori)
Tokyo Bay Ring Road
Yokohama Ring 1 (Yokohama Highway 83, Kanagawa Highway 201, Yokohama Highway 84)
Yokohama Ring 2
Yokohama Ring 3
Yokohama Ring 4 (Kanagawa Highway 23, Kanyon)
Utsunomiya Ring Road
Takasaki Ring Road
Malaysia
George Town
George Town Inner Ring Road
Penang Middle Ring Road
Penang Outer Ring Road
Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru Inner Ring Road
Johor Bahru Middle Ring Road, comprising:
Pasir Gudang Highway
Johor Bahru Parkway
Johor Bahru Outer Ring Road, comprising:
Second Link Expressway
Senai–Desaru Expressway
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur Inner Ring Road
Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 1
Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2
Others
Butterworth Outer Ring Road
Kajang Dispersal Link Expressway
Segamat Inner Ring Road
Nepal
Kathmandu Ring Road
Pakistan
Lahore Ring Road
Peshawar Ring Road
Philippines
Metro Manila
C-1
C-2
C-3
C-4
C-5
C-6
Thailand
Bangkok
Outer Ring Road – Kanchanaphisek Road – Motorway route 9, a complete ring road (grade-separated and controlled access) comprising:
Western Outer Ring Road, Bang Pa In to Suk Sawad
Eastern Outer Ring Road, Bang Phli to Bang Pa In, a partly tolled section
Southern Outer Ring Road, Bang Phli to Suk Sawad, a viaduct/bridge and fully tolled section
Inner Ring Road – a complete ring road comprising
Ratchadaphisek Road (eastern portion)
Wong Sawang Road (northern portion)
Charan Sanit Wong Road (western portion)
Bangkok Expressway – a fully tolled, complete ring (grade-separated and controlled access) comprising
Port – Dao Khanong Expressway (southern portion)
Phaya Thai – Bangkhlo Expressway (western portion)
Chalerm Mahanakhorn Expressway (eastern portion)
Asoke – Rachadapisek Expressway (northern portion)
Northern Thailand
Ayutthaya – Route 32, 347 and 356, a complete outer ring road
Ayutthaya – U Thong Road, a complete inner ring road, surrounding old city
Chiang Mai – Route 121, a complete outer ring road
Chiang Mai – Route 11 and 1141, a partial inner ring road
Phitsanulok – Route 126, a complete ring road linking routes 11, 12 and 117
Suphanburi – Route 357, a complete ring road linking routes 321, 322, 329 and 340.
Saraburi – Route 362, a complete ring road linking routes 1 and 2.
North Eastern Thailand
Buriram – Route 288, a complete ring road linking routes 218, 219 and 226
Khon Kaen – Route 230, a complete ring road linking Route 2 and Route 12
Roi Et – Route 232, a complete ring road linking routes 23, 214 and 215
Ubon Ratchathani – Route 231, a complete ring road linking routes 23, 24, 212, 217 and 226
Udon Thani – Route 216 ‘By pass Road’, a complete ring road linking Route 2 with Routes 22 and 216
South Eastern Thailand
Chonburi – Route 361, a partial ring road linking Route 3 with routes 315 and 344
Southern Thailand
Surat Thani – complete ring road consisting of routes 401, 417 and 420
Trang – Route 419, a complete ring road linking routes 4, 403 and 404
Singapore
Outer Ring Road System, comprising (from east to west):
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
Bukit Panjang Ring Road, a ring road located in Bukit Panjang
Minor ring roads in Woodlands
Woodlands Circle
Woodlands Ring Road
South Korea
Seoul
Seoul Ring Expressway (Route 100), a complete outer ring road of motorway standard.
Inner ring road, a complete ring consisting:
Naebu Beltway (Route 66)
Dongbu Arterial Road (Route 61)
Gangbyeonbuk-ro (Route 70)
Daejeon
Daejon Ring Road, a complete ring road consisting:
Daejeon Nambu Sunhwan Expressway (route 300), southern portion
Tongyeong–Daejeon Expressway (route 35), eastern portion
Gyeongbu Expressway (route 1), northern portion
Honam Expressway (route 251), western portion
Gwangju
Ring Road, a complete ring road consisting:
Honam Expressway (route 25), northern portion
Route 77, the eastern, western and southern portion
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
Partial ring road consisting:
National Route 1A (QL 1A), northern portion
Nguyen Van Linh, southern portion
Vanh Dai, incomplete eastern portion
Hanoi
Partial Inner Ring road consisting:
Duong Buoi, Duong Lang, Truong Chinh and Cau Vinh Tuy
Outer Ring Road consisting:
Duong Vanh Dai 3, Pham Van Dong, Duong 5 Keo Dai (QL 5), Cau Thanh Tri and Nguyen Van Linh
Australasia
Australia
Australian Coast or nearby – A1, ring road surrounds all of Australia
New South Wales
Sydney – Sydney Orbital Network, complete ring road consisting of 11 Motorways
Sydney – A9 (Sydney), a partial outer ring road
Newcastle – Newcastle Inner City Bypass, an inner partial ring road
Queensland
Brisbane – Orbital, a partial ring road comprising:
Gateway Motorway (M1), eastern portion
Logan Motorway (M2), southern portion
Western Bypass, a proposed western portion
Brisbane – Inner City Bypass an inner partial ring road
Townsville – Townsville Ring Road, a partial ring road comprising:
Douglas Arterial Road
Mackay – Mackay Ring Road, a partial ring road (proposed)
Toowoomba – Toowoomba Second Range Crossing, a partial ring road (proposed)
Victoria
Melbourne – Metropolitan Ring Road, a partial ring road comprising:
Western Ring Road (M80)
Metropolitan Ring Road (M80)
EastLink (M3)
Melbourne – Outer Metropolitan Ring Road, a partial outer ring road (proposed)
Geelong – Geelong Ring Road, a partial ring road
Western Australia
Perth Inner Orbital:
Reid Highway (northern)
Tonkin Highway (eastern)
Leach Highway (southern)
Perth Outer Orbital:
Roe Highway (eastern)
Roe Highway (southern)
Perth Bunbury Highway (proposed outer bypass), Bunbury
Europe
Austria
Gürtel (Outer Ring), Vienna
Ringstraße (Inner Ring), Vienna
Azerbaijan
Baku Ring, Baku
Belarus
Minsk Automobile Ring Road (MKAD), Minsk
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
Sofia ring road
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)
Cyprus
Larnaca Beltway – A3
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
Denmark
Copenhagen City Ring (O2) and Outer Rings O3, O4, Motorringveje 3 og 4)
Estonia
Tallinn ring road (Tallinna ringtee), around Tallinn, Estonian national road 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.
Hakamäentie, by-passes inner city. The central part is built, remaining parts uniting Turku motorway with E75
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[2]
Turun kehätie (Turku Ring Road), encircling city of Turku and bypasses through Turku, Raisio, Lieto and Kaarina.
Tampere Ring Road, encircling city of Tampere and bypasses Tampere, Pirkkala, Nokia and Ylöjärvi.
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
Mitteldeutsche Schleife (A 9, A 14, A 38, A 143), Leipzig, Halle
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
Attiki Odos, Athens (A6)
Thessaloniki Inner Ring Road (EO11, A25, A123)
Greek National Road 6 (EO6) (Larissa Beltway), Larissa
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 Hymettus 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 Hymettus 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 Hymettus. 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 Hymettus 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
Motorway M0 (Budapest)
Section of Motorway M35 bypassing Debrecen
Iceland
Route 1, which circles the entire country
Ireland
All ring roads listed are not arranged from previously existing roads.
Dublin: M50 motorway (Dublin Port Tunnel, Northern Cross Route, Western Parkway, South Eastern Motorway)
Limerick: Limerick Southern Ring Road (end of N7 route)
Cork: N40 Cork South Ring Road
Kilkenny: Kilkenny Ring Road (part N10/N77 routes)
Galway: Galway City Outer Bypass (planned)[3] (part of the N6 road route)
Waterford: Waterford Bypass [under construction] (part of the N25 route)
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
Grande Raccordo Anulare, Rome
Tangenziale, Milan (A50 -A51 – A52)
Tangenziale di Padova
Tangenziale di Pavia (A54)
Tangenziale di Torino (A55)
Tangenziale di Napoli (A56)
Tangenziale di Venezia (A57)
Tangenziale di Bologna (RA 1)
Tangenziale di Catania (RA 15)
Netherlands
The S100 that circles central Amsterdam (yellow) and the larger A10 (red) and its numerous connecting highways.
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, Groningen
Ring ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Ring Leeuwarden
Ring Sneek
Ring Spijkenisse
Ring Zwolle
Ring Zoetermeer
Ringweg Bruinisse
Ringweg Kats
Ringweg Harderwijk
Buitenring Parkstad
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.
Norway
Oslo Ringveg, Oslo (three ring roads going around the city centre, with a mutual road (E18) in southernmost part of the city)
Poland
Kraków rings: existing, built and planned.
Gliwice ring: A1 autostrada, A4 autostrada
Katowice agglomeration ring: A1 autostrada, A4 autostrada, Expressway S1
Kraków ring: A4 autostrada, Expressway S7, Expressway S52
Lublin ring: Expressway S17, Expressway S19
Łódź ring: A1 autostrada, A2 autostrada, Expressway S8, Expressway S14
Piotrków Trybunalski ring: A1 autostrada, Expressway S8, Expressway S12
Poznań ring: A2 autostrada, Expressway S5, Expressway S11
Rzeszów ring: A4 autostrada, Expressway S19
Warsaw ring: Expressway S2, Expressway S7, Expressway S8, Expressway S17
Wrocław ring: A4 autostrada, A8 autostrada
Szczecin ring: A6 autostrada, Expressway S3, Expressway S6
Toruń ring: A1 autostrada, Expressway S10
Tricity (Gdańsk, Sopot, Gdynia) ring: Obwodnica Trójmiejska
Portugal
VCI, inner ring road in Porto
CREP, outer ring road in Porto
Segunda Circular, inner ring road in Lisbon
CRIL, inner ring road of Lisbon’s suburbs
CREL, outer ring road of Greater Lisbon
Romania
Centura Bucureşti (CB, Bucharest Inner Ringroad) RO Roadsign CB.svg, 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 30, 2011.
Autostrada Centura Constanţa (Constanţa West Bypass motorway), part of A4 Tabliczka RO A4.svg, currently under construction, estimated completion – end of 2011
Russia
Saint Petersburg Ring Road, Saint Petersburg
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.
Third Ring Road (Moscow)
MKAD, Moscow
Chelyabinsk Ring, Chelyabinsk
Kaliningrad Road Ring, Kaliningrad
Slovenia
Ljubljana bypass (Obvoznica)
Serbia
Plan of the Belgrade bypass, with major interchanges:
Existing highways
Section A, Batajnica-Dobanovci
Section B, Dobanovci-Bubanj Potok
Section C, Bubanj Potok-Pančevo
Belgrade bypass (Obilaznica oko Beograda, under construction, total length is 69 kilometers) (A1)
Novi Sad bypass (A1)
Spain
The system of ring roads in the Spanish region of Madrid.
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, eastern section under feasibility study)
Malmö Inner Ring Road
Malmö Outer Ring Road
Linköping Inner Ring (C-ring) and Outer Ring (Y-ring)
Turkey
Most of Turkish metropolitans have beltways with motorway standard.
İstanbul: Has two beltways named as Otoyol 1 (inner beltway), Otoyol 2 (outer beltway) and Otoyol 7 (outest beltway)
Ankara: Otoyol 20
İzmir: Altınyol, Otoyol 30
Bursa: Otoyol 5 and Otoyol 22
Antalya: Dumlupınar Bulvarı (West), Gazi Bulvarı (North) are in use. A new beltway project is planning on stage.
Gaziantep: Otoyol 54
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. The road has been maintained in preparation for UEFA Euro 2012.
Other cities that have ring roads include:
Ivano-Frankivsk
Khust
Kropyvnytskyi
Lviv
Odessa
United Kingdom
Ashford, Ashford Ringway was formerly a one-way circuit of the town centre consisting of 3 to 4 lanes and part of the A292. The Elwick Road and Forge Lane sections now form part of the town’s shared space scheme with an aim of taming the traffic and promoting commercial growth. Somerset Road is now a dual carriageway and Wellseley Road and Station Road are now a single carriageway section of the A2042.
Aylesbury, the A4157 road in Aylesbury goes past Stocklake and Weedon Road near the Bicester Road near Fairford Leys
Basingstoke, Basingstoke Ringway is a complete loop around the town centre; it is a dual carriageway except for a small unfinished section on the south-western side.
Birmingham;
Birmingham Box orbital motorway (parts of M42, M6 and M5 motorways)[4]
outer (A4040) ring road (uses redesignated old roads, to the north it continues beyond the Box)
intermediate (A4540) ring road, Middleway;
former inner (A4400) ring road reduced; now two through routes;
Bradford, A6177
Coventry, A4053
Edinburgh, A720 Edinburgh City Bypass
Glasgow, Glasgow Inner Ring Road
Kidderminster, not completed
Leeds;
Leeds Outer Ring Road, M621, M1, M62;
Leeds Inner Ring Road
Leicester;
Leicester W/N 1st Orbital M1/A46 (Leicester Western Bypass);
Leicester Ring Road;
Leicester Central Ring
Liverpool, Queens Drive, the UK’s first ring road, conceived as early as 1860 by James Newlands; construction began in 1903 under his successor John Alexander Brodie[citation needed]
London;
London Orbital Motorway or M25 motorway (including A282);
North Circular and South Circular;
London (Inner) Ring Road
Manchester;
M60 Orbital Motorway; Created by the amalgamation and renumbering of several existing motorways (M62, M63 and M66) and some new build to create a complete loop around the city of Manchester and seven neighbouring Metropolitan Boroughs to form one of the UK’s busiest stretches of road.
Manchester Inner Ring Road; The Inner Ring Road runs around the city centres of Manchester and Salford. To the south one third is elevated motorway (the Mancunian Way), with the remainder being at-grade urban clear way.
Oxford, Oxford Ring Road
Paignton, Torquay, A380 road
Paisley, Renfrewshire
Reading, Berkshire, Inner Distribution Road
Redditch, B4160
Sheffield;
Sheffield Outer Ring Road;
Sheffield Inner Ring Road
Stourbridge, A491
Walsall, A4148
Watford, A411
Wolverhampton, A4150
North America
Canada
Alberta
Stoney Trail, Calgary
Anthony Henday Drive, Edmonton
Inner Ring Road (170 Street, Whitemud Drive, Wayne Gretzky Drive, Yellowhead Trail), Edmonton
British Columbia
South Fraser Perimeter Road, Metro Vancouver
Manitoba
Perimeter Highway, Winnipeg
New Brunswick
Route 15, Moncton
Newfoundland and Labrador
Outer Ring Road, Metro St. John’s
Pitts Memorial Drive, Metro St. John’s
Lewin Parkway, Corner Brook
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Highway 111, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in the Halifax Regional Municipality
Nova Scotia Highway 125, Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Ontario
Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway and Red Hill Valley Parkway, Hamilton
Southwest and Southeast Bypasses and Northwest Bypass, Sudbury (partial)
Thunder Bay Expressway, Thunder Bay (partial)
Highway 407, Greater Toronto Area
Quebec
Montreal
Autoroute 30, South Shore of Montreal – will be complete in 2009, from Chteauguay to A-20 and A-540 interchange in Vaudreuil-Dorion and from Candiac to Kahnawake in 2010
Autoroute 640, North Shore of Laval – not completed and probably won’t be completed from Oka to the A-40 near Hudson and from Charlemagne to the A-30 near Varennes
Quebec City
Autoroute 40, north of Quebec City
Sherbrooke
Autoroute 410, entire highway — north leg
Autoroute 10, exits 141 to 143 — northwest leg
Autoroute 610, entire highway — west & south legs
Saskatchewan
Ring Road, Regina
Circle Drive, Saskatoon
Mexico
Anillo Periférico, Mexico City. The beltway gained major media attention when the Mexico City mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, started a project to turn a southern section of the ring into a two-story highway. The second floor was finished in 2006.
A portion of the Circuito Interior, José Vasconcelos Avenue between Colonia Condesa and Colonia San Miguel Chapultepec, looking east in Mexico City.
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. An outer beltway that bypasses the city from the Zapotlanejo expressway to the Tepic expressway with the goal of relieving the current beltway from its heavy cargo traffic.
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
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Alabama
Interstate 459, partial beltway around Birmingham
Ross Clark Circle, a surface street (as opposed to a controlled-access highway) encircling Dothan—the first such ‘ring road’ in the United States, opening in 1958. Also known as AL 210
State Route 152, surface street encircling Montgomery
Boll Weevil Circle, a surface street encircling Enterprise
Arkansas
Interstate 430 and Interstate 440, completed segments of a planned full beltway around Little Rock
Arizona
Loop 101, Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Loop 202, Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Loop 303, Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Riggs Road/51st Avenue, Phoenix Metropolitan Area
California
Interstate 405, Interstate 605, and Interstate 210 around the Los Angeles Basin
Interstate 80 and Capital City Freeway, Sacramento
Interstate 280 and Interstate 680, partial beltway around the San Francisco Bay Area
U.S. Route 101 (Via Interstate 80 in San Francisco), Interstate 280 (California) (Via the Alemany Maze), Interstate 880 (Via Interstate 280) and Interstate 80 (Via the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, forms a loop around the San Francisco Peninsula and the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
Grand Boulevard is a circular surface street that circles Corona, California
Colorado
Interstate 225, Aurora
C-470, E-470, and the Northwest Parkway, Denver Metropolitan Area
Connecticut
Interstate 91/Interstate 291/Interstate 491 (unfinished Hartford Beltway)
District of Columbia
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway) (Primarily in Maryland and Virginia)
Florida
Interstate 295, Jacksonville
State Road 417/429/451, Orlando (planned beltway system)
State Road 570, Lakeland
Homestead Extension of Florida’s Turnpike (de facto), Miami
Tampa Bay Area Beltway (proposed)
Georgia
Interstate 285 (Atlanta Bypass), Atlanta
Interstate 520/Interstate 20 (Bobby Jones Expressway/Carl Sanders Highway) Augusta
State Route 10 Loop, Athens
State Route 120 Loop (Marietta Parkway), Marietta (a surface street)
Illinois
Interstate 80/Interstate 280, Quad Cities (also enters Iowa)
Interstate 294, Chicago
Interstate 474, Peoria
Indiana
Interstate 465, Indianapolis
Interstate 69/Interstate 469, Fort Wayne
Interstate 265/Interstate 65/Interstate 264/Interstate 64, Jeffersonville
Iowa
Interstate 35/Interstate 80/U.S. Route 65/Iowa Highway 5, a continuous beltway around Des Moines
Interstate 80/Interstate 280, Quad Cities also enters Illinois
Kansas
Interstate 435, Kansas City (second-longest beltway in the United States)
Interstate 235, Wichita
Interstate 470, Topeka
Kentucky
Ring Road, Elizabethtown (a surface street)
Interstate 264 (Henry Watterson Expressway), Louisville
Interstate 265 (Gene Snyder Freeway), Louisville
Man o’ War Boulevard, Lexington
New Circle Road, Lexington (mostly freeway, partly surface street)
Louisiana
Interstate 220, Shreveport
Interstate 210, Lake Charles
Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Lafayette (partially constructed boulevard loop around Lafayette)
The LRX or Lafayette Regional Xpressway (access-controlled toll road which serves the Lafayette metropolitan area)
Maryland
Interstate 695 (also known as the Baltimore Beltway, officially designated as the McKeldin Beltway), Baltimore
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway), Washington, D.C.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Route 128, cosigned with Interstate 95, Boston (not fully circumferential due to city’s seaside location)
Interstate 495, Boston (not fully circumferential due to city’s seaside location)
I-495 forms part of a complete beltway around Lawrence. I-495 runs along this beltway between exits 40 and 47. The rest of the beltway is formed by Interstate 93 between exits 44 and 48 on that highway, and the entirety of Route 213 (AKA the “Loop Connector”, which lent its name to a strip mall in Methuen).
Michigan
Interstate 275/Interstate 696, Detroit
Interstate 96/Interstate 196/M-6, Grand Rapids
Interstate 94/M-14/US-23, Ann Arbor
Interstate 96/Interstate 69/US-127, Lansing
M-185, Mackinac Island
Minnesota
Interstate 494/Interstate 694, Minneapolis-St. Paul
Minnesota State Highway 100, Minneapolis-St. Paul (now truncated, never all-expressway)
Mississippi
Interstate 220, Jackson
Missouri
Interstate 435, Kansas City (second-longest beltway in the United States)
Interstate 255/Interstate 270, St. Louis
Nebraska
Interstate 680, partial beltway around the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area
Nevada
Bruce Woodbury Beltway (Interstate 215/County Route 215), Las Vegas
McCarran Boulevard (State Route 659), Reno
New Hampshire
Interstate 293 and Interstate 93, Manchester
New Jersey
Interstate 287, New York City
Interstate 295, Trenton
New York
Interstate 287, New York City (Partial)
Interstate 290, Buffalo
Interstate 590, Rochester
Inner Loop, Rochester
Interstate 481, Syracuse
North Carolina
Interstate 485 (Outerbelt), Charlotte (Finished June 5, 2015)
These ring roads are all unfinished except for I-240/I-40 serving Asheville, I-440/I-40 serving Raleigh, I-485 and I-277/I-77 and Charlotte Route 4.
Other Freeway loops
Interstate 140, Wilmington (partial, unfinished)
Interstate 240/Interstate 40, Asheville
Does not fully function as a ring road since motorists cannot exit I-40 westbound to I-240 eastbound, nor I-240 westbound to I-40 eastbound.
Interstate 440/Interstate 40 (Beltline), Raleigh
Interstate 540/NC 540 (Outer Loop), Raleigh (unfinished)
Interstate 840/Interstate 85/Interstate 73 (Greensboro Urban Loop), Greensboro (under construction)
Interstate 274/Interstate 74 (Winston-Salem Beltway), Winston-Salem (planned)
Interstate 295/Interstate 95 (Fayetteville Outer Loop), Fayetteville (unfinished)
Nonfreeway loops
Apex Peakway (under construction)
Cary Parkway (partial loop)
Charlotte Route 4
Judd Parkway (Fuquay Varina) (under construction)
Maynard Road (Cary inner loop)
Silas Creek Parkway, is a partial loop in Winston-Salem, part of which is freeway grade.
U.S. Route 264/Alternate U.S. 264 (Greenville Boulevard), form a partial loop around Greenville, part of which is freeway grade
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 at 84 miles long
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
Interstate 205, Portland
Interstate 405/Interstate 5 between the Fremont Bridge and the Marquam Bridge, Downtown Portland
Pennsylvania
Capital Beltway, includes portions of I-81, I-83, and PA 581 around Harrisburg
Lehigh Valley Thruway, including I-78 and PA 33 provide a beltway for the Lehigh Valley
Pittsburgh/Allegheny County Belt System, Pittsburgh (set of six color-coded non-highway beltways)
Interstate 576 (proposed), a proposed toll beltway route around Pittsburgh
Interstate 70, Interstate 76, and Interstate 79 form a complete beltway around the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Interstate 476 and the Interstate 276 section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike provide a bypass of Philadelphia
Rhode Island
Interstate 295, Providence
Downtown Ring Roads, Providence
Downtown Circulator, Pawtucket
South Carolina
Interstate 20, Interstate 26, and Interstate 77 form a complete beltway around Columbia.
Interstate 520 (Palmetto Parkway/South Carolina), N. Augusta.
Interstate 526, (Mark Clark Expressway/James Island Expressway), Charleston (unfinished)
South Dakota
I-229, Sioux Falls
Tennessee
I-240, Memphis
I-269 Memphis Outer Beltway (partially built, remaining portions under construction)
I-440, Nashville
I-475, Knoxville Beltway Knoxville (planned)
I-840, Nashville
State Route 155 (Briley Parkway), Nashville
State Route 397 Mack Hatcher Memorial Parkway Franklin
Texas
Interstate 610 map, Texas
Interstate 410 (Loop 410), San Antonio
Loop 1604 (partial beltway on the north), 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
Interstate 215 (Belt Route), Salt Lake City
Vermont
Interstate 89/VT-289 (Chittenden County Circumferential Highway)
Virginia
Interstate 64/Interstate 664 (Hampton Roads Beltway)
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway), Washington, D.C.
Interstate 295, partial beltway around Richmond
State Route 262 (Staunton Beltway) Staunton
Washington
Interstate 405, Seattle
Wisconsin
In Milwaukee, Interstates 94 (exits 305-316) and 894 (entire route) form a beltway. Unlike most other beltways, it actually traverses the downtown area of the city it serves (see also: Marquette Interchange, and Zoo Interchange).
West Beltline Highway – U.S. 12/18 (Madison)
US 41/I-41, and WIS 441 (Appleton)
Interstates 41, 43, and WIS 172 form a beltway in Green Bay.
South America
Argentina
Avenida General Paz, Buenos Aires
Avenida de Circunvalacion, Córdoba
Avenida de Circunvalacion 25 de Mayo, Rosario
Avenida de Circunvalacion, Santa Fe
Avenida de Circunvalacion, San Juan
Brazil
Rodoanel Mário Covas, São Paulo
Arco Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Anel Viário José Magalhães Teixeira, Campinas
Avenida do Contorno, Feira de Santana
Anel Viário Norte (SP-328), Ribeirão Preto
Anel Viário Sul (SP-333), Ribeirão Preto
Anel Rodoviário (BR-262), Belo Horizonte
Contorno Oeste, Boa Vista
Chile
Américo Vespucio Avenue, Santiago
