Beltway

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“Ring road” redirects here. For other uses, see Ring road (disambiguation).

For the American political term, see Inside the Beltway and Beltway bandits.

A sign on the Hampton Roads Beltway in Virginia, United States, traveling on the outer loop (counterclockwise).

A beltway (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.

1 World List
2 See also

[edit] World List

[edit] Africa

[edit] Egypt

Autostrad road, Cairo

[edit] 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.

[edit] Americas (North and South)

[edit] Chile

Autopista Vespucio, Santiago

[edit] 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.

[edit] United States

[edit] 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

[edit] Arizona

[edit] California

[edit] Colorado

Interstate 225, Aurora
C-470, E-470, and the Northwest Parkway, Denver Metropolitan Area [1]

[edit] Florida

Interstate 295, Jacksonville
State Road 417/429/451, Orlando (planned beltway system)
State Road 570, Lakeland
Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike, Miami

[edit] Georgia

Interstate 285 (The Perimeter), Atlanta
Georgia Loop 10, Athens
Georgia Loop 120 (S./N. Marietta Parkway), Marietta (a surface street)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Illinois

Interstate 294, Chicago

[edit] Indiana

[edit] Louisiana

Interstate 220, Shreveport
Interstate 210, Lake Charles
Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Lafayette (partially constructed boulevard loop around Lafayette)

[edit] Maryland

Interstate 695 (Baltimore Beltway), Baltimore
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway), Washington, D.C

[edit] Massachusetts

[edit] Minnesota

Interstate 494/Interstate 694, Minneapolis-St. Paul
Minnesota State Highway 100, Minneapolis-St. Paul (now truncated, never all-expressway)

[edit] Mississippi

Interstate 220, Jackson, Mississippi

[edit] Missouri

[edit] Nevada

Interstate 215 (Bruce Woodbury Expressway), Las Vegas
McCarran Blvd. (State Route 650 / 651), Reno, Nevada

[edit] New Hampshire

Interstate 293, Manchester

[edit] New Jersey/New York

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] Oregon

Interstate 205, Portland
Interstate 405/Interstate 5 between the Fremont Bridge and the Marquam Bridge, Downtown Portland

[edit] 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 476 and the Interstate 276 section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike provide a bypass of Philadelphia

[edit] Rhode Island

[edit] South Carolina

I-526, (Mark Clark Expressway/James Island Expressway), Charleston (unfinshed)

[edit] Tennessee

I-440, Nashville, Tennessee
Briley Parkway, Nashville
State Route 840, Nashville (unfinished)
Mack Hatcher Memorial Parkway, Franklin, Tennessee
Interstate 240, Memphis

[edit] Texas

Interstate 410 (Loop 410), San Antonio
Interstate 610 (The 610 Loop), Houston
Interstate 635/I20 (LBJ), Dallas
Interstate 820 (Loop 820), Fort Worth
Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Tollway), Houston
State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway), Houston (unfinished)
State Highway Loop 12, Dallas
State Highway Loop 323, Tyler
State Highway Loop 336, Conroe
State Highway Loop 1604, San Antonio
Belt Line Road, suburbs around Dallas
State Highway Loop 375 (TransMt. Loop), El Paso

[edit] Utah

Interstate 215 (Belt Route), Salt Lake City

[edit] Virginia

Interstate 64/Interstate 664 (Hampton Roads Beltway)
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway), Washington, D.C
Interstate 295, Richmond

[edit] Washington, DC

Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway)

[edit] Washington State

Interstate 405, Seattle

[edit] Wisconsin

West Beltline Highway - U.S. 12/18 (Madison)
US 41 and WIS 441 (Appleton)

[edit] Asia

[edit] 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

[edit] Hong Kong

Route 9, a ring road linking most of the suburbs in Hong Kong together

[edit] Philippines

[edit] Metro Manila

Major Roads in Metro Manila

[edit] 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

[edit] Japan

[edit] Tokyo

[edit] Osaka

Hanshin Expressway Loop route
Kinki Expressway

[edit] South Korea

[edit] Seoul

Seoul Ring Expressway

[edit] Daejeon

Daejeon Southern Beltway

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Johor Bahru

Johor Bahru Inner Ring Road
Johor Bahru Middle Ring Road, comprising:

[edit] Kuala Lumpur

[edit] Thailand

[edit] 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)

[edit] Australia

[edit] New South Wales

Sydney Orbital Motorway, Sydney

[edit] 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.

[edit] Victoria

[edit] 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

[edit] Europe

[edit] Austria

Gürtel (Outer Ring), Vienna
Ringstraße (Inner Ring), Vienna

[edit] Azerbaijan

Baku Ring, Baku

[edit] Belarus

Minsk Automobile Ring Road (MKAD), Minsk

[edit] 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

[edit] Finland

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Germany

Berliner Ring (A 10), Berlin
Kölner Ring (A 1, A 3, A 4), Cologne
Münchener Ring (A 99), Munich

[edit] Greece

Attiki Odos, Athens
Greece Interstate 4 (Thessaloniki Beltway), Thessaloníki
Greece Interstate 8A (Patras Beltway), Patras (Roitika to near University of Patras)

[edit] Hungary

[edit] Iceland

Route 1, which circles the entire country

[edit] Italy

Grande Raccordo Anulare, Rome
Tangenziale, Milan

[edit] Netherlands

Ring Amsterdam (A10), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ring Rotterdam (A4/A15/A16/A20), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ring Utrecht (A2/A12/A27/Zuilensering), Utrecht, Netherlands

[edit] Poland

Obwodnica Trójmiejska, Tricity

[edit] Portugal

VCI, inner ring road in Porto, Portugal
Segunda Circular, inner ring road in Lisbon, Portugal

[edit] 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)

[edit] Russia

[edit] Spain

M30 motorway, inner ring road in Madrid, Spain
M40 motorway, medium ring road in Madrid
M50 motorway, outer ring road in Madrid
See also List of autopistas and autovías in Spain

[edit] Sweden

Stockholm ring road

[edit] Ukraine

[edit] United Kingdom

M25 motorway, London, England
A6120, A1(M),M1, M62, A6110, Leeds, England
M60 motorway, Manchester, England
M42 motorway - M6 motorway - M5 motorway, Birmingham, England
A720 Edinburgh City Bypass, Edinburgh, Scotland

source: http://kartta.hel.fi/opas/en/

[edit] See also

Downtown circulator

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