A594 road (Leicester)
The A594 Central Ring is the name of Leicester's central distributor road network. With the continuing regeneration of the inner city, the Central Ring has become a route within the city centre rather than one that encloses it; especially near the New Walk/Freemen's/University of Leicester and the Bede Island/Waterside/De Montfort University districts, to the south and west of the urban core respectively. Length and shape The road's length is approximately anti-clockwise and clockwise due to divergent one-way routings to the southeast. Typical distances from the city centre at Every Street to the Central Ring are between and . The road is for the most part circular, but it forms a chevron pointing southwards as it merges into the A426 and A5199, Aylestone and Welford Roads. It is largely a dual carriageway urban clear route. There are grade-separated junctions at the A607 (flyover/overpass) to the north and at the A47 (underpass) to the west. History The inner ring road was constructed in stages in the 1960s/1970s. A 1974 map shows that the St Nicholas Circle had been constructed, as well as Vaughan Way and Burleys Way, to the junction with Belgrave Road. The areas in which it was built had a