Talk:Beltway
Reading the definition of the US term Beltway, I am sure that a ring road is not the same thing, at least in the UK usage of the term. A beltway is an orbital motorway, yes, but not a ring road.
Many UK ring roads are not in fact purpose built roads, such as the M25 motorway, but are a series of existing roads that have been strung together to provide a circular route around a city centre. Frequently, these routes are not even on the edge or outside of the city built up area ( as I understand a beltway to be from this article ) but are fact inside the city. For example, Cambridge has a ring road that has been in existance for many years now. It is certainly not a beltway.
Therefore I propose either starting a new article for ring road (and a separate article again for those who like listing such things), unless there is strength of opinion for padding out this existing article to cover for ring roads in addition to beltways.JRL 02:36, 10 August 2005 (UTC)