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Actually, the beltway of Lawrence, Massachusetts is comparable to that of Harrisburg since the former consists of Interstates 93 and 495 and Massachusetts Route 213 with three interchanges necessary between them. 'Beltway' redirects to 'ring road' although not all beltways are ring roads. For that matter, Sheffield, England's ring road requires an actual 90-degree turn in each direction in addition to all the roundabouts. Heff01 (talk) 00:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
MA Route 213 is locally known as the Loop Connector. Heff01 (talk) 00:56, 14 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
Why is the article called "Ring road" while the category is called "Orbital roads"? Surely we should pick one name or the other. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 16:03, 5 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
There is a point of view that the article should mention that the Circle line (London Underground), Kiev Urban Electric Train, Moscow Little Ring Railway are all railway lines built for a similar purpose to that of ring roads.--Toddy1 (talk) 14:08, 23 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
Gentlemen, thank you for addressing the railway rings issue, which is useful to be mentioned somewhere.
However, my primary concern here is the introduction, which is not sufficiently explains the purpose of a ring road in general, and is also overloaded with synonyms. I insist on consensus that would include something like "purposely build to encircle (bypass) a townorcity in order to relieve their streets of the transiting traffic. Therefore, a ring road is a bypass connection between several inter-city roads from different directions."
On a side note, I'm warning User:Gareth Griffith-Jones of imminent blocks and ban of them should they continue blatant deletions combined with clearly directed personal attacks like that one. Thank you, 93.72.233.80 (talk) 21:03, 24 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
93.72.233.80 proposed that the introduction includes:
I do not think "inter-city roads" is the right phrase. Many of the big roads connected by a ring road are merely to towns, and so are not literally "inter-city".
Also, I think a key part of the definition of a ring road is that it is a ring (i.e. if you start at some point and keep on driving, you end up where you started). Many bypass roads have junctions with major roads from different directions, but are not ring roads.--Toddy1 (talk) 06:05, 25 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
To my eyes, the Maryland colour is not "blue" but lilac or mauve. The rivers and road numbers are blue. Davidships (talk) 16:09, 28 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Is this not confined strictly to the United States? I've never heard it used with reference to any other capital city, and speaking of references, this claim has none. 70.30.100.138 (talk) 11:53, 6 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
Hello, everyone!
I just had an idea on articles for beltways. As you may know, Wikipedia articles on highways display major intersections and freeway exits for a particular route on a table. Beltways are a special case because, depending on the exact routing, they will change direction as they encircle a city. Of course, one could always distinguish directions with the terms "clockwise" and "counterclockwise," but road signs often don't use those terms, and instead employ cardinal directions. My suggestion is that direction changes be indicated on the exit guides to avoid reader confusion. It could look something like this:
South ⇵ North ⟷ East ⇵ West; this reads, "southbound becomes eastbound, and northbound becomes westbound."
Notice the arrow symbols. The ⇵ symbol signifies the right-hand rule on roadways—for countries that observe the left-hand rule, the double arrow may be reversed ( ⇅ ). The ⟷ symbol accounts for the possibility that the viewer is reading the exit chart up or down.
Here are some real-life examples:
· Interstate 610 encircles Houston, TX, and ascribes all four cardinal directions, with the change happening at each of the four "corners" of the beltway.
· In Jacksonville, FL, the east and west "wings" of the Interstate 295 beltway are signed as North and South, with the direction changes occurring where it meets its parent route Interstate 95. Therefore, at those points, the changes would be written as; South ⇵ North ⟷ North ⇵ South; and vice versa.
· Loop 101, a semi-beltway in Phoenix, AZ, has two direction changes for its length. The first turn would be indicated as; South ⇵ North ⟷ West ⇵ East. And the second; East ⇵ West ⟷ South ⇵ North.
I was going to add the direction changes on the exit guide for the latter example, but found that editing the table was too difficult. So, I decided to post the suggestion here for the Wikipedia community to review. If anyone likes this, or wishes to suggest adjustments, please send a message to my Notifications Inbox.
Why is this article called ring road when that's not common US vernacular? I understand the author is under the impression that :"bypass" is incorrect usage but if it's so it's so commonly called a bypass then can we really label that incorrect? This page needs to be renamed and rewritten but I know that's a bold edit so I'm coming here first. 2601:140:8B80:5F50:5820:A801:F839:6EE5 (talk) 11:17, 25 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
I've gone ahead and removed I-405 in L.A. from the list of examples. It looks like a user at IP 149.32.224.34 added a bunch of examples in November 2018. I suspect some of them are incorrect. 71.70.166.171 (talk) 04:00, 10 November 2023 (UTC)Reply