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The R9 or small ring of Charleroi is an expressway located in Charleroi, Belgium.
Designed by Jean Yernaux, author of an urban vision of Charleroi articulated around its infrastructure (R9 and metro), the ring road is a loop around the city center on a perimeter of 5.6 km.
It consists of three to six one-way traffic lanes all going in a counter-clockwise direction. Because of the topography of the city, it consists of a series of viaducts and tunnels designed to relieve congestion in the city center while preserving the major boulevards it crosses.
Several neighborhoods nevertheless suffered from its construction and were destroyed by the installation of pillars or the digging of hoppers: la Villette (southwest), Bosquetville (southeast) and Broucheterre (north). The latter two saw several of their streets wiped off the map[1][2]. It was put into service in 1976.
Overall in poor condition, the ring road undergoes rehabilitation work between 2014 and 2020[3].
Like the A54 and the N5 towards Philippeville, it has the number E420.
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Viaduct to the west and south of the city.
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Small ring of Charleroi in the set of highways.
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Viaduct to the west and south of the city.
Notes and references
edit- ^ Charleroi métropole : guide, architecture moderne et contemporaine, 1881-2017 (in French). Iwan Strauven, Judith Le Maire, Marie-Noëlle Dailly. Bruxelles (Belgique). 2017. p. 188. ISBN 978-2-8047-0367-7. OCLC 1020583104.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "« La saga de l'anneau »". Charleroi Magazine: 6–8. November 2010.
- ^ "Charleroi : les automobilistes n'en croient pas leurs yeux, les travaux du ring (R9) sont enfin terminés ! - Télévision locale de Charleroi et sa région - Thuin - Chimay - Basse Sambre". www.telesambre.be. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
Bibliography
editGeorgios Maïllis, Charleroi, le projet métropolitain, Ville de Charleroi, 2022, pp. 310-318, ISBN 978-2-93-118600-8.
Iwan Strauven (eds.), Judith Le Maire (eds.) et Marie-Noëlle Dailly (eds. and photos), 1881-2017 Charleroi métropole, Brussels, Mardaga et Cellule architecture de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, 2017, ISBN 978-2-8047-0367-7.