ring road

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of ring road The last major piece of road building in Bengaluru was an outer ring road built 24 years ago. IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2024 The island will also have a ring road with a dedicated bus or train line, similar to the free Molly The Trolly service in downtown Fort Worth. Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2024 The students travelling in the other two buses were stopped by the Iguala Palace of Justice, beyond the ring road. Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 Construction is expected to begin about 12 months after demolition begins, but Betts said some of those projects could begin sooner if the developer chooses to access their sites from the outer ring road, not the center of the mall property. Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2020 See all Example Sentences for ring road 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • And despite the junta’s tight grip over the internet, people have found ways to bypass censors.
    Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In the surgery, a healthy blood vessel from the leg, chest or arm is removed and attached as a bypass around the blockage.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Spring Garden Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and Kelly Drive will also close, as well as all parkway lanes between 22nd and 24th streets.
    Mike D'Onofrio, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Plant it to fill up your parkway strip between sidewalk and street or in front of a low block wall for a softening effect.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 30 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads.
    The Economist, The Economist, 23 May 2020
  • The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
    Fox News, Fox News, 16 July 2018
Noun
  • On the other hand, most policymakers inside the beltway view this regulatory framework as sacred.
    Norbert Michel, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The Nottingham resident’s vehicle had entered the beltway near Reisterstown Road, police said.
    Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Police closed Market Street from Main Street to Beale Street during the investigation.
    Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Summer days in the high mountains cede to relaxing evenings on the casual confines of Main Street.
    James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There was also traffic backed up for miles on the interstate.
    Stephanie Claytor, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024
  • According to Fox 19, the interstate was already closed in Newport ahead of the bridge but police extended the closure up to Interstate 275 before 7:30 a.m.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • India's plans include completing construction on the Golden Quadrilateral, a multibillion-dollar superhighway linking New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, and Mumbai.
    Evan A. Feigenbaum, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2010
  • Solana is actively scaling its mainnet infrastructure, creating a superhighway for future growth without fragmenting liquidity across L2s.
    Amor Sexton, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • In terms of location, Germany is also an ideal target for cross-border crime: Neighboring the Netherlands and linked by motorways on some of which speed limits don’t apply.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
  • This led to the system at one point being convinced that the speed limit on a motorway was 70 kph, some way short of the 130 kph other traffic was traveling at.
    Alex Goy, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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