The Vienna Ring Road is a 5.3 km circular grand boulevard that serves as a ring road around the historic Innere Stadt district of Vienna, Austria. The road is located on sites where medieval city fortifications once stood, including high walls and the broad open field ramparts (glacis), criss-crossed by paths that lay before them.
The Schubertring section of the Ringstraße in Vienna
The Schottenring section of the Ringstraße in 1875
The Ringstraße with parliament on the left and Volksgarten park to the right
Burgring with the Museum of Natural History to the left
A ring road is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist in reducing traffic volumes in the urban centre, such as by offering an alternate route around the city for drivers who do not need to stop in the city core. Ring roads can also serve to connect suburbs to each other, allowing efficient travel between them.
The Third Ring Road in the area of the Moscow International Business Center.
The Leeds Inner Ring Road in England was built in a series of tunnels to save space and avoid physically separating the city's centre from its suburbs.
I-275 passing through Sharonville (suburb of Cincinnati, OH)
The Anthony Henday Drive ring road in Edmonton