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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.
London, for instance, has the so-called
"ring road" which circles
Central London and the larger
M25 Orbital motorway which circles
Greater London.
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 (for example, politics
inside the Beltway), derived
metonymically from the
Capital Beltway encircling Washington, D.C.
Geography can sometimes complicate the construction of a beltway. One example is
Stockholm, where there's a semi-beltway (
Essingeleden). To be completed, most of it'll have to run in submarine tunnels.
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