A 'beltway', 'loop', (
American English), 'ring road' or 'orbital motorway' (
British English) is a
circumferential highway found around or within many cities.
''Beltway'', ''orbital motorway'', ''perimeter loop'', ''beltline'', and similar terms refer to an
expressway/
motorway/
freeway style standard road that often originally enclosed the built up area and was later encroached upon by developed areas.
''Ring road'' may sometimes refer to a beltway-style road, but more commonly indicates a road or series of roads within a city or town that have been joined together by
town planners to form an orbital distributor style road, but where the standard of road could be anything from an ordinary city street up to an expressway level. The principal difference is that a ring road is an orbital distributor road system designed from already existing roads, as opposed to a beltway which is designed from new as such a road system. A ring road designation also implies a more inner-city road designed to route traffic around a city centre, as opposed to routing traffic around a larger
conurbation.
Some cities have proposed or built multiple concentric beltways and/or ring roads.
Many beltway-style roads are part of a wider highway system, for example in the
United States beltways are commonly a part of an
interstate highway system.
Inner/Outer labeling is a common way of uniformly signing the directions of travel on beltways in America.
In the United States, 'Beltway' also has a political connotation (e.g., politics
inside the Beltway), derived
metonymically from the
Capital Beltway encircling Washington, D.C.
World List
Africa
Egypt
★
Autostrad road,
Cairo
South Africa
South Africa has the most advanced road system of any African country. 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.
★
Johannesburg Ring Road
★
Durban Outer Ring Road
★
Peninsula Expressway, Cape Town
★
Pretoria Bypass
Americas (North and South)
Argentina
★
Avenida General Paz,
Buenos Aires
★
Avenida de Circunvalacion,
Cordoba
★
Avenida de Circunvalacion 25 de Mayo,
Rosario
★
Avenida de Circunvalacion,
Santa Fe
★
Avenida de Circunvalacion,
San Juan
Brazil
★
Rodoanel Mário Covas,
São Paulo
Canada
Alberta
★
Highway 201,
Calgary,
Alberta
★
Highway 216,
Edmonton, Alberta
Manitoba
★
Perimeter Highway,
Winnipeg,
Manitoba
New Brunswick
★
Route 15,
Moncton,
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
★
Outer Ring Road,
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
★
Lewin Parkway,
Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
★
Nova Scotia Highway 111,
Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia, in the
Halifax Regional Municipality
★
Nova Scotia Highway 125,
Cape Breton Regional Municipality,
Nova Scotia
Ontario
★
Highway 407 ETR,
Toronto,
Ontario
★
E.C. Row Expressway,
Windsor, Ontario
★
Southwest and Southeast Bypasses +
Northwest Bypass,
Greater Sudbury,
Ontario (partial)
Quebec
★ Montreal
★
★
Autoroute 30, South Shore of
Montreal,
Quebec ''Will be complete in 2009, from
Châteauguay to
A-20 and
A-540 interchange in
Vaudreuil-Dorion and from
Candiac to
Kahnawake in 2010.''
★
★
Autoroute 640, North Shore of
Montreal,
Quebec ''Not completed and problably won't be completed from
Oka to the
A-40 near
Hudson and from
Charlemagne to the
A-30 near
Sainte-Julie''
★ Quebec City
★
★
Autoroute 40, North Shore of
Quebec city,
Quebec
Saskatchewan
★
Ring Road,
Regina, Saskatchewan
★
Circle Drive,
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan
Chile
★
Autopista Vespucio,
Santiago
Mexico
★
Periférico Manuel Gómez Morín,
Guadalajara, Jalisco. The ring has a gap: it starts at the Autopista México 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 Río Nilo avenue.
★
Anillo Periférico,
Mexico City. The beltway gained major media attention when the Mexico City mayor,
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, started a project to turn the ring into a two-story highway. The second floor was finished in 2006.
United States
Alabama
★
Interstate 459, partial beltway around
Birmingham, Alabama
★
Ross Clark Circle, a surface street (that is, not an
access-controlled highway) encircling
Dothan
★
State Route 152, surface street encircling
Montgomery, Alabama
Arizona
★
Loop 101,
Phoenix
★
Loop 202
California
★
Interstate 280 and
Interstate 680, partial beltway around the
San Francisco Bay Area
Colorado
★
Interstate 225,
Aurora
★
C-470,
E-470, and the
Northwest Parkway,
Denver Metropolitan Area [1]
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
Georgia
★
Interstate 285 (The Perimeter),
Atlanta
★
State Route 10 Loop,
Athens
★
State Route 120 Loop (S./N. Marietta Parkway),
Marietta (a surface street)
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)
Illinois
★
Interstate 294,
Chicago
Indiana
★
Interstate 465,
Indianapolis
★
Interstate 69/
Interstate 469,
Fort Wayne
Louisiana
★
Interstate 220,
Shreveport
★
Interstate 210,
Lake Charles
★ Ambassador Caffery Parkway,
Lafayette (partially constructed
boulevard loop around Lafayette)
Maryland
★
Interstate 695 (
Baltimore Beltway),
Baltimore
★
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway),
Washington, D.C
Massachusetts
★
Route 128,
Boston
★
Interstate 495,
Boston (Longest beltway in the United States)
Minnesota
★
Interstate 494/
Interstate 694,
Minneapolis-St. Paul
★
Minnesota State Highway 100, Minneapolis-St. Paul (now truncated, never all-expressway)
Mississippi
★
Interstate 220,
Jackson, Mississippi
Missouri
★
Interstate 435,
Kansas City (Second longest beltway in the United States)
★
Interstate 255/
Interstate 270,
St. Louis
Nevada
★
Interstate 215 (Bruce Woodbury Expressway),
Las Vegas
★ McCarran Blvd. (State Route 650 / 651),
Reno, Nevada
New Hampshire
★
Interstate 293,
Manchester
New Jersey/New York
★
Interstate 287,
New York City
★
Interstate 290,
Buffalo, New York
★
Interstate 590,
Rochester
★
Interstate 481,
Syracuse, New York
North Carolina
★
Apex Peakway,
Apex (partially constructed
boulevard loop around central Apex)
★
Charlotte Route 4,
Charlotte (a
city route comprised of mostly non-
freeways that encircles the
Uptown area)
★ Maynard Road,
Cary (A city road that encircles the inner part of town)
★
Interstate 440/
Interstate 40 (Beltline),
Raleigh
★
Interstate 485 (Outerbelt),
Charlotte (unfinished)
★
Interstate 540 (Outer Loop),
Raleigh (unfinished)
★
Interstate 840/
Interstate 40 (
Painter Boulevard),
Greensboro (under construction)
★
Interstate 274/
Interstate 74 (
Winston-Salem Beltway),
Winston-Salem (planned)
Ohio
★
Interstate 270,
Columbus– Locally known as The Outerbelt.
★
Interstate 271/
480,
Cleveland- Not a true beltway, but the two highways do form a circumferential highway around Cleveland as limited by geography.
★
Interstate 275,
Cincinnati
★
Interstate 475,
Toledo
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,
Interstate 79 form a complete beltway around
Metro Pittsburgh.
★
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
★
I-526, (Mark Clark Expressway/James Island Expressway),
Charleston (unfinshed)
Tennessee
★
I-440,
Nashville, Tennessee
★
State Route 155 (Briley Parkway),
Nashville
★
State Route 840,
Nashville (unfinished)
★ Mack Hatcher Memorial Parkway,
Franklin, Tennessee
★
Interstate 240,
Memphis
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 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
Virginia
★
Interstate 64/
Interstate 664 (
Hampton Roads Beltway)
★
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway),
Washington, D.C
★
Interstate 295,
Richmond
★
State Route 262 (
Staunton Beltway)
Staunton, VA
Washington, DC
★
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway)
Washington State
★
Interstate 405,
Seattle
Wisconsin
★
West Beltline Highway - U.S. 12/18 (
Madison)
★
US 41 and
WIS 441 (
Appleton)
Asia
China
★
2nd,
3rd,
4th,
5th and
6th Ring Roads,
Beijing
★ 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ring Roads,
Chengdu
★
Shenyang Round City Expressway,
Shenyang
★
Tangshan Round City Expressway,
Tangshan
★
Inner,
Middle and
Outer Ring Roads,
Tianjin
Hong Kong
★
Route 9, a ring road linking most of the suburbs in Hong Kong together
Philippines
Metro Manila
Major Roads in Metro Manila
★
C-1,
Metro Manila
★
C-2,
Metro Manila
★
C-3,
Metro Manila
★
EDSA(C-4),
Metro Manila
★
C-5,
Metro Manila
★ Proposed
C-6,
Metro Manila
India
★
Inner and Outer Ring Roads,
Chennai,
Tamil Nadu
★
Central,
Intermediate, and
Outer 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
★
Outer Ring Road,
Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh
★
Ahmedabad Bypass,
Ahmedabad,
Gujarat
★
Jaipur Bypass,
Jaipur,
Rajasthan
Japan
Tokyo
★
Tokyo Expressway
★
Shuto Expressway C1
Inner Circular Route
★
Shuto Expressway C2
Central Circular Route
★
Tokyo-Gaikan Expressway
★
Ken-O Expressway
Osaka
★
Hanshin Expressway Loop route
★ Kinki Expressway
South Korea
Seoul
★
Seoul Ring Expressway
Daejeon
★
Daejeon Southern Beltway
Malaysia
Johor Bahru
★
Johor Bahru Inner Ring Road
★ Johor Bahru Middle Ring Road, comprising:
★
★
Pasir Gudang Highway
★
★
Johor Bahru Parkway
★
★
Tuas Second Link
Kuala Lumpur
★
Kuala Lumpur Inner Ring Road
★
Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 1
★
Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2
Nepal
★
Kathmandu Ring Road
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)
Australia
New South Wales
★
Sydney Orbital Motorway,
Sydney
Queensland
★
Brisbane Orbital, comprising:
★
★
Gateway Motorway (eastern orbital)
★
★
Logan Motorway (southern orbital)
★
★
Western Bypass Motorway (proposed western orbital)
★
★
Inner City Bypass (inner north ring road)
★
Townsville Orbital, comprising:
★
★
Townsville Ring Road, Partially completed.
Victoria
★
Metropolitan Ring Road,
Melbourne
★
Geelong Ring Road,
Geelong
Western Australia
★
Perth Inner Orbital:
★
★
Reid Highway (northern)
★
★
Tonkin Highway (eastern)
★
★
Leach Highway (southern)
★ Perth Outer Orbital:
★
★
Roe Highway (eastern)
★
★
Roe Freeway (southern)
★
Bunbury Ring Road (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
Finland
★ 'Kehä 0' (''Ring 0''), a conceptual approach to routing traffic away from the very center of the city, to develop greater pedestrian access areas in the center, the so-called "carless center". 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
France
★
Périphérique,
Paris
★
A86 autoroute,
Paris
★
Périphérique de Toulouse (
A620,
A612),
Toulouse
★
Périphérique de Lyon (
A7, N383),
Lyon. West segment is still under construction.
★
Périphérique 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
★
Kölner Ring (
A 1,
A 3,
A 4),
Cologne
★
Münchener Ring (
A 99),
Munich
Greece
★
Attiki Odos,
Athens
★
Greece Interstate 4 (Thessaloniki Beltway),
Thessaloníki
★
Greece Interstate 8A (Patras Beltway),
Patras (
Roitika to near
University of Patras)
Hungary
★
Motorway M0 (
Budapest)
★
Section of Motorway M35 bypassing Debrecen
Iceland
★
Route 1, which circles the entire country
Italy
★
Grande Raccordo Anulare,
Rome
★
Tangenziale,
Milan
Netherlands
★
Ring Amsterdam (A10),
Amsterdam,
Netherlands
★
Ring Rotterdam (A4/A15/A16/A20),
Rotterdam,
Netherlands
★
Ring Utrecht (A2/A12/A27/Zuilensering),
Utrecht,
Netherlands
★
Ring Rotterdam(A4/A15/A16/A20)
Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Poland
★
Obwodnica Trójmiejska,
Tricity (
Gdansk,
Sopot,
Gdynia)
Portugal
★ , inner ring road in
Porto,
Portugal
★ , inner ring road in
Lisbon,
Portugal
Republic of 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) (Phase 1 open, Phase 2 under construction
as of 2006)
★
Cork: ''South Ring Road'' (start of
N25 route)
★
Kilkenny: ''Kilkenny Ring Road'' (part
N10/
N77 routes)
★
Galway: ''Galway City Outer Bypass'' [planned]
[2] (part of the N6 route)
★
Waterford: ''Waterford Bypass'' [under construction] (part of the N25 route)
Russia
★
Garden Ring,
Moscow
★
Third Ring,
Moscow
★
MKAD,
Moscow
★
Saint Petersburg Ring Road,
Saint-Petersburg
Spain
★
M30 motorway, inner ring road in
Madrid,
Spain
★
M40 motorway, medium ring road in Madrid
★
M50 motorway, outer ring road in Madrid
★
B10 motorway, coastal ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia),Spain
★
B20 motorway, upper (north parth) ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain
★
B30 motorway, outer ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain
★
B40 motorway, the outest ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain.(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)
Ukraine
United Kingdom
★
M25 motorway,
London,
England
★
A6120,
A1(M),
M1,
M62,
A6110,
Leeds,
England
★
M60 Orbital Motorway,
Greater Manchester,
England
★
Manchester-Salford Inner Ring Road,
Greater Manchester,
England
★
M42 motorway -
M6 motorway -
M5 motorway,
Birmingham,
England
★ A720
Edinburgh City Bypass,
Edinburgh,
Scotland
★ Ashford, Kent - complete ringroad round town centre.
source: http://kartta.hel.fi/opas/en/
See also
★
Downtown circulator
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