CityNerd | Ring Roads: Why We Spend Billions So We Can Drive In Circles @CityNerd | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Today we shame cities that encircle themselves with freeways, but we also try to understand the logic of the ring road, orbital, or beltway (choose your terminology!). Come along on a tour of cities that have built these concentric concrete moats -- and trust me, no city gets off easy (especially Houston).

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Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced:
- All About Induced Demand: youtu.be/za56H2BGamQ
- The USA's 10 Most Freeway-Heavy Downtowns: youtu.be/WYsJx1urS3Y

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Resources:
- arabnews.com/node/1520156/saudi-arabia
- data.census.gov/table?q=s0801&g=310XX00US26420&tid=ACSST5Y2019.S0801

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Images
- Moscow Metro map By A.Savin - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23967711
- Thumbnail: Capital Beltway Mixing Bowl By Duane Lempke - Duane Lempke Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=126478185

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Music:
CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)

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