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Encyclopedia > Ring road

A beltway (American English), ring road or orbital motorway (British English) is a circumferential highway found around many cities. Often it originally enclosed the built up area and was later encroached upon by developed areas - and some cities have proposed or built second and even third beltways. In the United States, many beltways are part of the Interstate highway system.


The main purpose of beltways is deflecting some traffic from the city.

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List of Beltways Around The World

Africa

South Africa has the most advanced road system of any African country - a legacy of the Apartheid government. 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.


The list of significant South African metropolitan ring roads are shown here:

Americas

Asia

Australia

  • New South Wales
  • Victoria
    • Western/Metropolitan Ring Road, Melbourne
    • Geelong Ring Road, Geelong
  • Queensland
    • Brisbane Orbital, comprising:
      • Gateway Motorway (eastern orbital), Brisbane
      • Logan Motorway (southern orbital), Brisbane
      • Western Bypass Motorway (proposed western orbital), Brisbane
    • Inner City Bypass (inner north ring road)
  • Western Australia
    • Roe Hwy(eastern orbital),Perth
    • Roe Fwy(southern orbital), Perth
    • Bunbury Ring Road (proposed outer bypass), Bunbury

Europe


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Newly built independent commercial complex at a prime location facing ring road in J.P.Nagar 2nd stage is available for Rental.
Newly built, architect designed, independent corner commercial complex at a prime location on Ring road in JP Nagar 5th phase is available for rent.
Newly built architect designed independent commercial complex at a prime location on ring road adjacent to ISRO complex near Marthahalli is available available for rent.
2Bangkok.com - Ring Road/Ring Railway Projects (789 words)
This page examines proposals for an outer ring road that also includes train and/or Skytrain services (the idea being that existing inner city mass transit systems would stretch out to the ring road) as well as ideas for the Industrial Ring Road which includes a giant bridge over the Chao Phraya River.
The ring road can serve up to 100,000 vehicles a day and is expected to relieve traffic volume on the nearby Rama IX bridge by 50%.
This Industrial Ring Road is for transportation between the industrial estates in Prapadaeng and Samut Prakarn and Klongtoei Port and the connection to Rama 2 Highway, Sukhumvit Road and Bangna - Bang Pakong Highway with the total price tag of 8.7 billion baht.
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