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	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro
		According to commerce and industry secretary Sabyasachi Sen, ?apart from being an outer ring road for Calcutta, it will be the highway backbone for Bengal, providing an unbroken link from the north of the state to the south?.
		With the government facing a funds crunch and the need to improve road infrastructure being urgent, the project is billed as the government?s first foray with public-private partnership into the roads sector.
		According to town planners, the road is an immediate requirement for the future, given the city?s recent phenomenal growth along its eastern fringes.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050509/asp/calcutta/story_4674083.asp (486 words)

	Johannesburg Ring Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Johannesburg Ring Road is one of Africa's most famous beltways.
		Construction on the Ring Road began in the late 1960s.
		The Gillooly's Interchange, built on an old farm and the point at which the N3 Eastern Bypass and the R24 Airport Freeway intersect, is purported to be the busiest interchange in the Southern Hemisphere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johannesburg_Ring_Road (256 words)

	Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1999 census, 19.4% of the total population of the metropolitan area were born outside of metropolitan France.
		Year in, year out, the metropolitan area of Paris accounts for about 29% of the total GDP of metropolitan France, although its population is only 18.7% of the total population of metropolitan France (as of 2004).
		In 2002, according to Eurostat, the GDP of the metropolitan area of Paris accounted alone for 4.5% of the total GDP of the European Union (of 25 members), although its population is only 2.45% of the total population of the EU25.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paris (5286 words)

	Munich
		However, the identity of the ring road is to be emphasized instead by urban planning measures, building construction and features of open-space landscaping, not only in a functional way, but also in its capacity as an urban area or as a series of urban spaces.
		The ring road is interpreted as a kind of modern spatial event, as a sequence of a great variety of partial spaces with different qualities of sojourn and visual impressions expressing the individual character of the city areas passed through.
		The circular ring road is by no means a continuum of urban planning having left historical traces in the structure of the city; it is rather a functional continuum.
	www.planum.net /4bie/main/m-4bie-munich.htm (1433 words)

	Beltway Information
		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.
		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
		Kölner Ring (A 1, A 3, A 4), Cologne
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Beltway (615 words)

	Beltway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A beltway ( American English), ring road or orbital motorway ( British English) is a circumferential highway found around many cities.
		The concept of a ring road also includes a road in the downtown area, distributing traffic and keeping it from the very center.
		Most of the major cities' ring roads were built in the 1970s.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beltway (294 words)

	Ring Road Re-Development
		This affects both private motorists and buses public transport becomes less efficient and everyone travelling around the north and west of the town centre is sitting in a “tunnel of pollution”.
		Massive congestion means the ring road is failing both through traffic and vehicles trying to access the town centre.
		We intend to upgrade the existing ring road between Manor Hospital and the Arboretum involving major layout improvements at seven out of eight main junctions.
	www.walsall.gov.uk /transport/ringroad (670 words)

	Road To Nature
		Road reserves should be wide enough to allow for a wildlife sanctuary area which will not be destroyed by future road widening projects.
		This is the correct mitigation - keep the road as far to the north as possible, to reduce the amount of wetland and passerina paludosa affected by the road.
		The White-tailed mouse (Mystromys albicaudatus) and Brant's climbing mouse (Dendromus mesomelas) are considered to be vulnerable or rare due to the widespread destruction of lowland fynbos and renosterveld in the case of the former and a discontinuous distribution in the latter case.
	roadtonature.org /report200209.htm (7849 words)

	Metropolitan Ring Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metropolitan Ring Road is a planned beltway around Melbourne consisting of
		The resulting beltway will be similar to the size and scope of Sydney 's Orbital Motorway.
		It becomes part of the Western Ring Road and is presently signed as the M80.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_Ring_Road (198 words)

	Moscow (city, Russia) - MSN Encarta
		Moscow is laid out in a series of concentric rings that center on the original medieval fortress, the Kremlin.
		The encircling wide thoroughfares—the Boulevard Ring, Garden Ring, and Outer Ring Road—delineate the historic expansion of the city’s fortifications.
		Located in the heart of Moscow on the northern bank of the Moscow River, the Kremlin is a triangular-shaped complex surrounded by stone walls reaching 20 m (66 ft) in height and nearly 2.5 km (1.5 mi) in circumference.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562480/Moscow_(city_Russia).html (1256 words)

	THE OPENING OF CRAIGIEBURN BYPASS STAGE 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An initial four kilometres of the bypass north of the Metropolitan Ring Road opened in December 2004, with the entire project expected to be complete by late 2005.
		Metropolitan Ring Road Interchange, Thomastown -- Construction of the interchange to link the Craigieburn Bypass with the Metropolitan Ring Road between Edgars Road, Thomastown and the Hume Highway, Campbellfield.
		The road avoids native grasslands, preserves the habitat of endangered frog species and augments the work undertaken by the Friends of Merri Creek by incorporating in its design walkways and bikepaths.
	www.ministers.dotars.gov.au /jl/speeches/2004/LS06_2004.htm (1948 words)

	Ring road plan altered before case - theage.com.au
		The State Government's draft Metropolitan Strategy had all references to completing a metropolitan ring road deleted because of impending legal action challenging the Scoresby Freeway, a senior VicRoads official told the Federal Court yesterday.
		He queried the draft's mention of the completion of a ring road after Transport Minister Peter Batchelor had told parliament on October 9, 2001, that it was not being considered.
		Construction of the ring road will not occur through the Eltham area and, therefore, an alternative route must be considered.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/10/30/1035683473571.html (519 words)

	Ring road in Biratnagar still a mirage
		The proposed ring road was designed to have a width of 50 metres, 7.5 metres of which would have bitumen fl top.
		The alignment of the ring road was designed to pass through 12 wards of Biratnagar Sub-metropolitan City and 8 VDCs of Morang district including Kathari, Jhorahat, Bhathinach, Bhaudaha, Hattimuda and Tankisinbari VDCs.
		An estimated area of 200 hectares of land is expected to be used for the construction of the ring road.
	www.kantipuronline.com /kolnews.php?&nid=6232 (335 words)

	Boise State University Alumni Association
		One side of the ring features the easily recognizable state of Idaho with the Boise State logo in the southwest corner where Boise, Idaho's capital city and largest metropolitan area is located.
		All rings are custom-made in your choice of 10K or 14K yellow or white gold with an antique finish.
		The ring may be engraved on the inside with the recipient's name, degree, and class year.
	www.idbsu.edu /alumni/programs/ringdetails.htm (322 words)

	OECD Observer: Road pricing: What's the deal?
		Road congestion and pollution are a fact of life in cities and towns, but road pricing could stop it from being an inevitable one.
		Road authorities tend to try other ways of reducing congestion problems arising from peak demand, whether by road widening, various traffic management techniques like bus lanes, co-ordinated traffic signalling systems and so on.
		Road tolls are another charge often cited as a form of road pricing, but again, these are generally aimed at paying for the cost of building and maintaining roads, whether public or private.
	www.oecdobserver.org /news/fullstory.php/aid/647/Road_pricing:_What's_the_deal_.html (1710 words)

	Oliver Hume Real Estate Group - Hume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Considered to be a culturally diverse community (with in excess of 130 ethnic groups), Hume is located on the urban-rural fringe of Metropolitan Melbourne.
		Road linkages include Sunbury Road, Tullamarine Freeway and Citylink to the Melbourne Central Business District, Calder Freeway further northwest, Western Ring Road to the west, and Metropolitan Ring Road to the east.
		Moreover, work has commenced on the long awaited extension of the metropolitan train system which will see trains travel to a new Roxburgh Park station and to Craigieburn (expected completion date in 2006).
	www.oliverhume.com.au /l_hume.html (541 words)

	RACV Motoring Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Motorists travelling the Western and Metropolitan Ring Road will have to pay particular attention to changing speed limits being introduced as part of a joint Federal and State Government safety package.
		The ring road has had an unenviable history of motor accidents with 669 casualty crashes and nine fatalities in the five years between July 1997 and June 2002.
		Installation of fixed road safety cameras (to be switched on in October).
	vehicleinspections.racv.com.au /racvm/motoringnews/article_show.cfm?objectid=670F8788-C695-4954-A903901011BC38B2&art=FS (469 words)

	Beltway - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Perhaps if we were able to implement them better ring roads could be a lot more effective, and become more effective for the future.
		Obviously when congestion charges are put into place in our country ( England), we will see the ring roads become more widely used, due to fear of congestion in the cities, and thus charges.
		South Africa has the most advanced road system of any African country - a legacy of the Apartheid government.
	www.iridis.com /Beltway (328 words)

	West Bengal's wetlands under threat \| News \| Down To Earth magazine
		Bhattacharjee hopes the road, which will require the acquisition of roughly 1,000 hectares (ha), will be completed in two years.
		The highway was initially proposed in 2004 as a 60-km “outer ring road” for the city and a “highway backbone” for Bengal, providing an unbroken link between the north and the south.
		Road in north Kolkata, and the southern half of the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass.
	www.downtoearth.org.in /Full6.asp?FolderName=20060915&FileNAme=news&sid=3&sec_id=4 (525 words)

	Victorian Auditor-General's Office (Australia)
		The objective of this program is to achieve a long—term average of one-third of available funds spent on rural roads and two-thirds on roads in metropolitan Melbourne.
		This process is aimed at ensuring that the State’s road construction program is consistent with policy priorities of government within the context of established broad transport and road network strategies.
		This data on the quantum of available road funding is not routinely prepared in a consolidated form for periodic presentation to the Parliament.
	www.audit.vic.gov.au /old/sr61/ags6104.htm (7878 words)

	Metropolitan District of Leeds - Leeds. The UKs favourite city. -
		Leeds Metropolitan is over 2/3 open area making Leeds one of the most dense cities in the UK.
		The Outermost ring comprises of 3 motorways, 1 dual carriageway and 1 single carraigeway road, whereas the other ring roads with exception of the inner ring road are all single carriageway roads, although the loop is a one way system.
		The Inner ring road, known also as New York Road is a motorway numbered A58/A64 (M) The city has the best internet services in the country and over 33% of the UKs internet traffic passes through somewhere in Leeds' metropolitan area.
	www.freewebs.com /leedsmetro (670 words)

	City of Whittlesea - Melbourne, Australia
		There are different types of public roads throughout the municipality, which are classified according to size and function as either Municipal public roads, declared arterial roads and declared freeways.
		Arterial roads and freeways are the responsibility of VicRoads.
		Arterial Roads carry most of the traffic around the municipality and throughout the metropolitan area, and are sometimes called primary arterial or secondary arterial roads.
	www.whittlesea.vic.gov.au /content/content.asp?cnid=2269 (604 words)

	Belfast Inner Ring Road - Northern Ireland Roads Site
		The Belfast Inner Ring Road, also known as the City Centre Ring and the Belfast Inner Box, is being designed to enhance the city centre by redirecting traffic away from the core city streets.
		Responsibility for non-strategic roads passes to the councils in Spring 2009 so, depending on how this scheme is classed, the council may or may not be able to pull the plug on it.
		The BMAP comments that the existing nature of the road is "disjointed and often expansive" and commits to making it look more "appropriate to the streetscape of a central urban area and does not form a barrier".
	www.wesleyjohnston.com /roads/belfastinnerring.html (554 words)

	The Hindu : Driving on Inner Ring Road, a nightmare
		Originally meant to be a quick-link between the southern and northern parts of the city and to serve as a bypass, the road is clogged by unchecked encroachments along its margin, constant digging by various organisations and a proliferation of slow moving traffic such as fish carts and bullock carts.
		The only part of the road which now qualifies as a by-pass for Chennai is the stretch from Kolathur which joins on to the Erukkancherri High Road, just past Moolakkadai.
		The second phase of the proposed 15 km road, is to be built from Maduravoyal to Red Hills.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/11/12/stories/0412401x.htm (587 words)

	Ron Boswell - THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THOMASTOWN SECTION MELBOURNE METROPOLITAN RING ROAD THOMASTOWN, MELBOURNE ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Ring Road is also a vital component of the shared government concept of Melbourne as a ‘liveable’ city and a national transport hub.
		Realignment of the eastbound lanes of Mahoneys Road.
		Ladies and gentlemen, the Melbourne Metropolitan Ring Road, which we complete today, is a symbol of Melbourne’s progress and expansion.
	www.ministers.dotrs.gov.au /rb/speeches/1999/rb2_99.htm (816 words)

	Middle East Report 216: The 94 Percent Solution: A Matrix of Control, Jeff Halper
		Metropolitan Jerusalem also reveals the hegemonic nature of Israel's future relationship to a Palestinian state, as exemplified by the matrix of control.
		The metropolitan region is defined by infrastructural and economic realities on the ground, rather than in formalized plans.
		Metropolitan Jerusalem, in which Palestinian East Jerusalem is isolated from the wider Palestinian society and Israel retains control of the entire central section of the West Bank, renders the sovereignty of a future Palestinian state meaningless.
	www.merip.org /mer/mer216/216_halper.html (3431 words)

	Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We believe the completion of the ring road around the metropolitan area will strengthen the local economy, provide for greater ease of movement between our communities and serve to better connect us to each other.
		The area chambers believe strongly that work must begin immediately to convene a wide range of area interests and reach a consensus on the highest priorities of regional infrastructure projects to allow the state and federal delegations adequate time to secure the necessary funding.
		Given the degree of construction and development in the area, this is a critical project to construct as quickly as possible.
	www.pekin.net /Transportation.htm (1636 words)

	MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first phase of the planned 116-kilometre Amman Ring Road includes the construction of a 41-kilometre section around the eastern side of Amman.
		It also includes the relocation, near the new road, of the Amman Customs Depot and the infrastructure and utility services for an inland port — to handle the large flows of road freight traffic on the national and international links.
		The Ring Road aims to improve the quality of life in Amman, the statement said.
	www.menafn.com /qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=39554 (276 words)

	Asia Times: Indonesia's ring road turns full circle
		Students frequently demonstrated at Tutut's toll road sections, waving placards charging that paying the toll fees enriches the Suharto family, and demanding, as crucial to the reform process they dreamed of, that all the toll roads should be free.
		The toll road sector was worst hit by the economic crisis in 1998, with 29 projects delayed and a further 19 placed under review.
		The toll roads and the land on which they are built remain the property of the government.
	www.atimes.com /se-asia/CI06Ae01.html (1787 words)

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