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Ceinture Flêchée
''Ceinture'' (French, 'belt' or 'girdle', and may refer to a ring road) may refer to: Petite ceinture * ''Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture'', a former circular railway in Paris * Small Ring, Brussels, the inner ringroad Grande ceinture * Grande Ceinture line, a railway line around Paris * Greater Ring, Brussels, the intermediate ringroad See also * Ceintures de Lyon, a former series of fortifications around Lyon, France * Ceinture fléchée, a French-Canadian colourful sash * ''Ceinture noire'', a 2018 album by Gims * Ceinture rouge, communes of the Île-de-France formerly dominated by the French Communist Party {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop 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 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. Nomenclature The name "ring road" is used for the majority of metropolitan circumferential routes in Europe, such as the Berliner Ring, the Brussels Ring, the Amsterdam Ring and the Leeds Inner and Outer ring roads. Australia, Pakistan, and India also use the term ring road, as in Melbourne's Western Ring Road, Lahore's Lahore Ring Road and Hyderabad's Outer Ring Road. In Canada the term is the most commonly used, with "orbital" also used, but to a much lesser extent. In Europe and Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
