editor Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 From the Strange Maps blog: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/05/2...this-ring-road/ The map layers the peripheral highways of 27 of the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NThomas Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 San Antonio has a future outer loop that's already in place besides a few bypasses and spurs. all ready in place I'm pretty sure that'll dwarf Grand Parkway or DFW's planned "Loop 9" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProHouston Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 San Antonio has a future outer loop that's already in place besides a few bypasses and spurs. all ready in place I'm pretty sure that'll dwarf Grand Parkway or DFW's planned "Loop 9"Hmm, I'm unfamiliar with the SA road your talking about. It can't be Loop 1604 because it's not even as far out as the Beltway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Hmm, I'm unfamiliar with the SA road your talking about. It can't be Loop 1604 because it's not even as far out as the Beltway.Here you go.http://www.texashighwayman.com/circuit.htmIt's not one highway, but a series of highways that form a ring about 30-40 miles away from downtown San Antonio. It's about 222 miles in circumference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 An old book I had mentioned the I45-I10-59 ring around downtown as Houston's inner loop. This was while 610 was still under construction. So by that reckoning, Houston will have four ring roads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 An old book I had mentioned the I45-I10-59 ring around downtown as Houston's inner loop. This was while 610 was still under construction. So by that reckoning, Houston will have four ring roads.If you consider the FM 1960/Highway 6/Highway 146 loop as a ring road, then it would be 5. Interestingly, the Wikipedia definition of a ring road would seem to include the 1960/6/146 ring, yet the list of cities with notable ring roads does not include it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 An old book I had mentioned the I45-I10-59 ring around downtown as Houston's inner loop. This was while 610 was still under construction.Originally, 610 was not planned to be a complete loop, but C-shaped. The Northeast section would've terminated at I-10 East and the Southeast section would've terminated at Highway 225. After a while, the planners realized a full loop would be better, so they added the bridge over the Houston Ship Channel into the plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Originally, 610 was not planned to be a complete loop, but C-shaped. The Northeast section would've terminated at I-10 East and the Southeast section would've terminated at Highway 225. After a while, the planners realized a full loop would be better, so they added the bridge over the Houston Ship Channel into the plans.I remember reading that in the Houston Freeways book. It'd be an interesting study to find research how people traversed the Buffalo Bayou and San Jacinto Rivers in the contexts of how these riparian systems have been so completely altered over two centuries to form the Houston Ship Channel. Where were the bridges and tunnels, when were they built? Before that, where were the ferries, what kinds of vessels were they, and when did they operate? Before that, where were the best places to ford across? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartmann Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Here you go.http://www.texashighwayman.com/circuit.htmIt's not one highway, but a series of highways that form a ring about 30-40 miles away from downtown San Antonio. It's about 222 miles in circumference.I think considering that a "ring road" is a stretch. Parts of that are two lane roads with no shoulder. If San Antonio quadruples in size I'm still not sure that set of roads would need to be expanded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Our ring road is bigger than yours! Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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