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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] |
Chemin De Fer De Petite Ceinture
Paris's Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture (, 'small(er) belt railway'), also colloquially known as ''La Petite Ceinture'', is a circular Rail transport, railway built as a means to supply the city's Thiers wall, fortification walls, and as a means of transporting merchandise and passengers between the major rail-company stations in Paris. Beginning as two distinct 'Ceinture Syndicate' freight and 'Paris-Auteuil' passenger lines from 1851, they formed an arc that surrounded the northern two thirds of Paris, an arc that would become a full circle of rail around the capital when its third Ceinture Rive Gauche section was built in 1867. Although the Syndicate-owned portion of the line was freight-only in its first years, after the creation of a passenger service from 1862, the Chemin de fer de Ceinture became Paris's first metro-like urban transport, and even more so after the 'Ceinture Rive Gauche' passenger-and-freight section began. The line's passenger service was a popular means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Ring, Brussels
The Small Ring (, ; , ) inner ring road, formally R20 and N0, is a series of roadways in central Brussels, Belgium, surrounding the historic city centre. The city centre is usually defined as the area within the Small Ring; this area is called the Pentagon due to its pentagonal shape. The Pentagon forms the core of the City of Brussels municipality. The road was built on the site of the 14th-century second walls of Brussels, after they had been torn down. During the second stage of the covering of the Senne in the 20th century, the river was diverted to underneath the western boulevards of the Small Ring. This freed up the main tunnels that had contained the water to allow construction of the Brussels ''premetro'' (underground tram) service with minimal disruption to the surface. The Small Ring is about long. It is surrounded by the Greater Ring, which runs about , and by the main Brussels Ring motorway (about ). The road passes through tunnels allowing vehicles to avoid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grande Ceinture Line
The Grande Ceinture line (, ) is a Rail transport, railway line around Paris, located from the Boulevard Périphérique. The decision to build it was taken at the end of the 19th century, to connect the radial lines linking the capital to the provinces and provide relief to the busy Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture, Petite Ceinture Line (). Description The Grande Ceinture is now entirely dedicated to freight traffic in its northern and eastern section between Gare de Sartrouville, Sartrouville and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, linking up the western (Normandy), northern (Picardie, Benelux, Great Britain), east (Lorraine (region), Lorraine, Alsace, Germany) and south-eastern and south-western routes and their extensions into Italy, Switzerland and Spain, and the connections between the different factories of Île-de-France (region), Île-de-France. It linked up the classification yard, marshalling yards of Achères, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and Bourget until the closure of the first t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Ring, Brussels
The Greater Ring or Intermediate Ring (, ; , ) is a series of roadways in Brussels, Belgium, intermediate between the Small Ring and the main Brussels Ring motorway. Most of this set of roads is numbered R21 and is about long, compared to for the Small Ring and for the main Ring. This road crosses two motorways ( A12 and E40-east) and offers a connection to the A10/E40-west at Basilique/Basiliek via the Avenue Charles Quint/Keizer Karellaan, to the A12 at Gros Tilleul/Dikke Linde, to the E19-north and N22/A201 at Leopold III via the Boulevard Léopold III/Leopold III-laan, to the A3/E40-east at Reyers, to the E411 at Arsena(a)l via the Boulevard du Triomphe/Triomflaan and to the E19-south at Paepsem via the Boulevard Industriel/Industrielaan. The road passes through tunnels (Boileau tunnel, Montgomery tunnel, Georges Henri tunnel), on bridges and viaducts (e.g. Diamant viaduct, Teichmann bridge and Van Praet bridge) and under bridges and viaducts (e.g. Luttre bridge). Amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceintures De Lyon
The ceintures de Lyon (; "Belts of Lyon") were a series of fortifications built between 1830 and 1890 around the city of Lyon, France, to protect the city from foreign invasion. The belts comprised two defensive barriers that included forts, Lunette (fortification), lunettes, Rampart (fortification), ramparts, Artillery battery, batteries, and other defensive structures. Many of these structures proved to be ineffective in war due to advancement in weapon technology and the evolution of attack strategies at the time. Some of the fortifications of the ceintures de Lyon have been destroyed, though many remain today. History After the July Revolution in 1830 and the end of the House of Bourbon, Bourbon monarchy, the government feared a new war. Austria was seen as the major threat to France at the time, and so protecting the east and south-east borders became a priority. Construction of the first belt In 1830 the maréchal de camp, Hubert Rohault de Fleury (soldier), Hube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
