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It's 2.25 miles or 3.62km long and has nine junctions.
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Our Ring Road has been called disorientating and terrifying but it's one of the safest roads in the city.
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Our Ring Road was designed by the then Coventry Corporation's own engineers.
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The Ring Road is the busiest road in the city not counting the A45 and A46.
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All of the Ring Road junctions except one are separated from the main loop. Junction 1 is the only traffic island on the loop.
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Ring Road junctions are extremely close together and one leads into another at many points.
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The first stretch of the Ring Road was opened in 1962.
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The Ring Road was completed 30 years after the initial plans were drawn up.
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The Ring Road design has been tattooed on the chest of a Coventry man.
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Our Ring Road was built in six stages.
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14. The Rules of the Coventry Ring Road
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Songs have been written about our Ring Road and tutorials posted on YouTube about how to drive it.
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At least one driver has accidently driven around our Ring Road the wrong way!
16. About the work at Junction 6
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The work underway on Junction 6 is the first major change since our Ring Road was built.
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The speed limit on the Ring Road is 40mph – on the slips and the main loop.
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Our Ring Road only gained junction numbers towards the end of the 1980s.
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An early plan for the Ring Road included going around the railway station – this was later shelved.
20. Junction 7 car park
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Originally Coventry was meant to have three ring roads – one a mile further out and a by-pass on the edge.
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Over 700 houses were bulldozed to make way for the Ring Road.
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The Ring Road's official road number is A4053.
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Not many people call our Ring Road the A4053 and it only appears on one sign – at Junction 4.
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A short section between Junctions 4 and 5 of the Ring Road is the only stretch where you turn left, clockwise, for a while.
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The correct way to drive on the Ring Road is to stay in the right hand lane unless you're about to exit.
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The different sections are called 'Ringways' but the road is always the Ring Road.
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Engineers planning our Ring Road pioneered the use of computer based traffic modelling in the UK.
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The original Ring Road plan had parkland and cycle paths on each side of a dual carriageway.
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There are lay-bys on the underpasses of the Ring Road.
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Ring Road junction numbers are unusually signposted in white on red, not white on black.
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It takes roughly three and a half minutes to drive around the Ring Road.
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When the last beam was put on the Ring Road in 1969 all the workers were given a bottle of beer to celebrate.
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There is an average of just 430 yards between junctions on the Ring Road.
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It's official – more Coventry people love it our Ring Road than love to hate it.
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Under road heating was installed on the first sections of the Ring Road - but this was quickly abandoned due to cost!
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Studies of traffic flows on the Ring Road led to the introduction of variable speed limits on motorways.
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There are 150 lighting columns on the Ring Road - including 29 high masts at 35 metres tall.
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The Ring Road took over 12 years to complete with the last section opened 40 years ago today (19 September).
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