George Town Inner Ring Road is an urban
ring road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop, bypass or orbital) 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 i ...
within the city of
George Town in
Penang
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,
Malaysia
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. It comprises the eastern end of
Gurney Drive
Gurney Drive (,, ) is a popular seafront promenade within George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The road is also famous for the street cuisine at the seafront's hawker centre and has been listed as one of the 25 best streets worldwide to visit by the A ...
, Jalan Pangkor, Jalan Perak and Jalan Sungai Pinang, forming a loop containing the city centre. Both the old and new
Central Business Districts of the city, as well as its
UNESCO
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World Heritage Site
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, are located within the loop.
The ring road serves to alleviate traffic congestion by acting as a bypass between the northern coast of
George Town and the
Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway to the southeast. Whilst the ring road is presently formed by municipal roads, infrastructural plans have been drawn up to turn the roads into a proper expressway, including the construction of elevated bypasses and a tunnel.
List of interchanges
See also
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Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway
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Transport in Penang
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Roads in Penang
Expressways and highways in Penang
Ring roads in Malaysia