List of ring roads

Below is a list of ring roads from around the world.

Africa

Egypt

Morocco

Nigeria

South Africa

Asia

Afghanistan

Highway 1 (Afghanistan)

China
See also: Ring roads of Beijing

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

Indonesia

Iran

Fukuoka
  • Expressway
    • Fukuoka Expressway Circle Route (35 km, 60–80 km/h)

Nagoya

Osaka

Sendai Metropolitan Area
  • Expressway
    • Gurutto Sendai (58.9 km, 70–100 km/h)

Greater Tokyo Area
Expressways of the Greater Tokyo Area

George Town

Johor Bahru

Kuala Lumpur

Others

Nepal

Pakistan

Metro Manila

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
  • 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

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

Gwangju
  • Ring Road, a complete ring road consisting:
    • Honam Expressway (route 25), northern portion
    • Route 77, the eastern, western and southern portion

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 - Highway 1, ring road surrounds all of Australia

New South Wales

Queensland

Victoria

Western Australia

Europe

Austria

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Bulgaria

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

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

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

Greece

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

Iceland
  • Route 1, which circles the entire country

Ireland

All ring roads listed are not arranged from previously existing roads.

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

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)
  • Ringveg Vest, Bergen (Connecting RV 580 and RV 555)
  • Ringveg Øst, Bergen (Not built E39 Bypassing Bergen city centre E16 bypassing Arna)

Poland
Kraków rings: existing, built and planned.

Portugal

Romania
  • Centura Bucureşti (CB, Bucharest Inner Ringroad) , 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 , currently under construction, estimated completion - end of 2011

Russia

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.

Slovenia

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.

Ukraine

Kyiv 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:

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;
  1. Birmingham Box orbital motorway (parts of M42, M6 and M5 motorways)[4]
  2. outer (A4040) ring road (uses redesignated old roads, to the north it continues beyond the Box)
  3. intermediate (A4540) ring road, Middleway;
  4. former inner (A4400) ring road reduced; now two through routes;
  1. Leeds Outer Ring Road, M621, M1, M62;
  2. Leeds Inner Ring Road
  1. Leicester W/N 1st Orbital M1/A46 (Leicester Western Bypass);
  2. Leicester Ring Road;
  3. Leicester Central Ring
  1. London Orbital Motorway or M25 motorway (including A282);
  2. North Circular and South Circular;
  3. London (Inner) Ring Road
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  1. Sheffield Outer Ring Road;
  2. Sheffield Inner Ring Road

North America

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

Nova Scotia

Ontario

Quebec

Saskatchewan

Mexico
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.

Alabama

Arkansas

Arizona

California

Colorado

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

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

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

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

Nonfreeway loops

  • Apex Peakway (under construction)
  • Cary Parkway (partial loop)
  • Charlotte Route 4
  • Judd Parkway (Fuquay Varina) (under construction)
  • Maynard Road (Cary inner loop)
  • NC 67 (Silas Creek Parkway), is a partial loop in Winston-Salem, with some expressway/freeway portions. NC 67 is routed on this road between the Peters Creek Parkway intersection and the Reynolda Road interchange.
  • U.S. Route 264/Alternate U.S. 264 (Greenville Boulevard), form a partial loop around Greenville, part of which is freeway grade
  • NC 150/NC 66 (Kernersville Loop Road), Kernersville (under construction) is a planned loop in Kernersville that is planned to be built by connecting five of the existing roads in the town with improvements such as, widening and reconstructing some of the other existing roads and building new roads, though unfunded. One of the roads in that town Macy Grove Road will be extended featuring reconstruction of the Mountain Street interchange on the road, building a new intersection with Smith Edwards Road, and building a new superstreet intersection. NC 150 is now rerouted on to the new section of Macy Grove Road as of October 2020.

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

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas
Interstate 610 map, Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Wisconsin

South America

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

See also

List of longest ring roads

References
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  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-08-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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