Beltway

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.

Contents 1 World List 1.1 Africa 1.1.1 Egypt 1.1.2 South Africa 1.2 Americas (North and South) 1.2.1 Argentina 1.2.2 Brazil 1.2.3 Canada 1.2.3.1 Alberta 1.2.3.2 Manitoba 1.2.3.3 New Brunswick 1.2.3.4 Newfoundland and Labrador 1.2.3.5 Nova Scotia 1.2.3.6 Ontario 1.2.3.7 Quebec 1.2.3.8 Saskatchewan 1.2.4 Chile 1.2.5 Mexico 1.2.6 United States 1.2.6.1 Alabama 1.2.6.2 Arizona 1.2.6.3 California 1.2.6.4 Colorado 1.2.6.5 Connecticut 1.2.6.6 Florida 1.2.6.7 Georgia 1.2.6.8 Kansas 1.2.6.9 Kentucky 1.2.6.10 Illinois 1.2.6.11 Indiana 1.2.6.12 Louisiana 1.2.6.13 Maryland 1.2.6.14 Massachusetts 1.2.6.15 Minnesota 1.2.6.16 Mississippi 1.2.6.17 Missouri 1.2.6.18 Nevada 1.2.6.19 New Hampshire 1.2.6.20 New Jersey/New York 1.2.6.21 North Carolina 1.2.6.22 Ohio 1.2.6.23 Oregon 1.2.6.24 Pennsylvania 1.2.6.25 Rhode Island 1.2.6.26 South Carolina 1.2.6.27 South Dakota 1.2.6.28 Tennessee 1.2.6.29 Texas 1.2.6.30 Utah 1.2.6.31 Vermont 1.2.6.32 Virginia 1.2.6.33 Washington, D.C. 1.2.6.34 Washington State 1.2.6.35 Wisconsin 1.3 Asia 1.3.1 China 1.3.2 Hong Kong 1.3.3 Philippines 1.3.3.1 Metro Manila 1.3.4 Indonesia 1.3.5 India 1.3.6 Japan 1.3.6.1 Tokyo 1.3.6.2 Osaka 1.3.7 South Korea 1.3.7.1 Seoul 1.3.7.2 Daejeon 1.3.8 Malaysia 1.3.8.1 Johor Bahru 1.3.8.2 Kuala Lumpur 1.3.8.3 Penang 1.3.8.4 Others 1.3.9 Nepal 1.3.10 Thailand 1.3.10.1 Bangkok 1.3.11 Singapore 1.4 Australia 1.4.1 New South Wales 1.4.2 Queensland 1.4.3 Victoria 1.4.4 Western Australia 1.5 Europe 1.5.1 Austria 1.5.2 Azerbaijan 1.5.3 Belarus 1.5.4 Belgium 1.5.5 Finland 1.5.6 France 1.5.7 Germany 1.5.8 Greece 1.5.9 Hungary 1.5.10 Iceland 1.5.11 Ireland 1.5.12 Italy 1.5.13 Netherlands 1.5.14 Poland 1.5.15 Portugal 1.5.16 Russia 1.5.17 Spain 1.5.18 Sweden 1.5.19 Ukraine 1.5.20 United Kingdom 2 See also 3 References

World List

Africa

Egypt

• Autostrad road, Cairo
• Cairo Ring 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
• Highway 216, Edmonton

Manitoba

• Perimeter Highway, Winnipeg

New Brunswick

• Route 15, Moncton

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

Ontario

• Highway 407 ETR, Toronto
• 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

Chile

• Autopista Vespucio, Santiago

Mexico

• Anillo Interno 210, Monterrey, Nuevo León. The beltway is almost a complete 6+6 lane highway with some parts of 5+5 lanes. 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 Consitucion. The beltway is a complete freeway except for the parte from Avenida Los Angeles - Churubusco until Avenida Constitución (East part of the Beltway).
• 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 [2]

Connecticut

• Interstate 91/Interstate 291/Interstate 491 (Unfinished Hartford Beltway)

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)

Kansas

• Interstate 435, Kansas City (second-longest beltway in the United States)

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
• Interstate 474, Peoria

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)
• The outer, middle, and inner loops of an expressway proposed by the Lafayette Metropolitan Expressway Commission that would serve the Lafayette MSA

Maryland

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

Massachusetts

• Route 128, Boston (incomplete)
• Interstate 495, Boston (longest beltway in the United States) (incomplete)

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

• Bruce Woodbury Beltway (Interstate 215/ CC 215), Las Vegas
• McCarran Boulevard (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 - The longest beltway in the United States.
• 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)

South Dakota

• I-229, Sioux Falls

Tennessee

• I-240, Memphis
• I-269 Memphis Outer Beltway (Partially built, remaining portions under construction)
• I-440, Nashville, Tennessee
• I-475, Knoxville Beltway Knoxville, Tennessee (planned)
• State Route 155 (Briley Parkway), Nashville
• State Route 840, Nashville (unfinished)
• State Route 397 Mack Hatcher Memorial Parkway Franklin, Tennessee

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

Vermont

• Interstate 89/VT-289 (Chittendon County Circumferential Highway)

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, D.C.

• 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

Indonesia

• Jakarta Inner Ring Road
• Jakarta Outer Ring Road (some sections uncompleted)
• Semarang Ring Road (Arteri Semarang Toll Road)
• Surabaya (Gresik - Gempol Toll Road)

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 ^[1]
• Outer Ring Road, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh ^[2]
• Ahmedabad Bypass, Ahmedabad, Gujarat ^[3]
• Jaipur Bypass, Jaipur, Rajasthan ^[4]

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

Penang

• Butterworth Outer Ring Road
• Penang Outer Ring Road
• Penang Middle Ring Road

Others

• Kajang Dispersal Link Expressway
• Segamat Inner Ring Road

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)

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

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 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

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.
• 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

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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
• Dortmunder Ring (A 1, A 2, A 45), Dortmund
• 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

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] ^[6] (part of the N6 route)
• Waterford: Waterford Bypass [under construction] (part of the N25 route)

Italy

• Grande Raccordo Anulare, Rome
• Tangenziale, Milan

Netherlands

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

Poland

• Obwodnica Trójmiejska, Tricity (Gdansk,Sopot,Gdynia)

Portugal

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

Russia

• Garden Ring, Moscow
• Third Ring, Moscow
• MKAD, Moscow
• Saint Petersburg Ring Road, Saint-Petersburg

Spain

• M30 motorway, inner ring road in Madrid
• M40 motorway, medium ring road in Madrid
• M50 motorway, outer ring road in Madrid
• B10 motorway, coastal ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia)
• B20 motorway, upper (north parth) ring road in Barcelona (Catalonia
• B30 motorway, outer 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; northern section under construction, eastern section under feasibility study)

Ukraine

United Kingdom

• Ashford - complete ringroad round town centre.
• Birmingham: Birmingham Box orbital motorway (parts of M42, M6 and M5 motorways) ^[7] and inner (A4400, now partly disrupted), outer (A4040, using redesignated old roads) and intermediate (A4540 'middleway', mostly purpose-built) general-use ring roads.
• Cambridge, Coventry and Reading, Ring Roads around these cities
• Edinburgh, A720 Edinburgh City Bypass,
• Greater Manchester: Manchester-Salford Inner Ring Road, M60 Orbital Motorway
• Hastings: Hastings ring road (Harley shute, Ridge West, A2100, The Ridge A21, White rock)
• Leeds: Leeds Outer Ring Road, M621, M1, M62, Leeds Inner Ring Road
• London: M25 motorway, South Circular, North Circular, Inner Ring Road

See also

• Downtown circulator

References