ˈring-road
[f. ring n.1 + road n.]
A by-pass road encircling a town or urban area.
| 1928 Daily Express 27 Aug. 8/6 London has no form, no symmetry. I suggest that we could give her this by cutting a broad ring-road through the old nineteenth century suburbs. 1933 L. P. Abercrombie Town & Country Planning iv. 144 The external Ring road has been frequently made to avoid the destructive widening of an old village. 1942 Country Life 9 Oct. 692/3 Among recommendations are..removal of markets from the central areas to positions on the ring road. 1943 Forshaw & Abercrombie County of London Plan iv. 53 We are strongly of the opinion that a relatively fast traffic ring-road is essential. 1952 Ann. Reg. 1951 402 The system of arterial ring-roads was abandoned, largely on grounds of cost. 1956 Sun (Baltimore) 17 July 12/2 Mr. McVoy establishes a priority system in which the first need is the ring road around the inner city. 1963 Times 22 Feb. 5/2 A ring road will surround the new centre and a recently built open market is to be doubled. 1971 Country Life 3 June 1377/1, I knew a priest in Tirana who fought the City Council over a plan to drive a ring-road through his church. 1981 B. Hines Looks & Smiles 31 They..caught a bus out to the Ring Road where a Trading Estate was being developed. |