Thessaloniki Inner Ring Road
{{Short description|Road in Greece}}
{{Infobox road
| country = GRC
| type = EO
| route = 111
| map = Ring road thessaloniki map.jpg
| length_km = 31
| length_round =
| length_ref =
| established = 1970s
| direction_a = North
| terminus_a = Lahanagora
| junction =
| direction_b = South
| terminus_b = Kalamaria
| regions = Central Macedonia
| cities = Thessaloniki
| name = Thessaloniki Inner Ring Road
| translation = Εσωτερική Περιφερειακή Οδός Θεσσαλονίκης
}}
File:Thessaloniki Ring Road Near interchange K9 Touba.jpg
The Thessaloniki Inner Ring Road ({{langx|el|Εσωτερική Περιφερειακή οδός Θεσσαλονίκης}}) is a dual carriageway ring road encircling most of the Thessaloniki Urban Area in Central Macedonia, Greece. Planned in 1975 and put into service in the 1990s, it consists of the Western Ring section ({{lang|el|Δυτική Περιφερειακή}}), and of the main Inner Ring section ({{langx|el|Εσωτερική Περιφερειακή}}). With three lanes per direction it carries over 120.000 cars per day, making it one of the country's most busy highway sections.
Course
The Western Ring section starts at a coastal spur highway, the Thessaloniki New Western Entrance (signposted as part of the A2 motorway). Passing by the municipalities Ampelokipoi-Menemeni, Kordelio-Evosmos and Pavlos Melas it joins the A24 motorway (Promachonas–Nea Moudania) near Efkarpia. The Western Ring section has been recently upgraded to full Motorway standard in its biggest part with five new intersections have been built.{{cite web|script-title=el:Περιφερειακή Θεσσαλονίκης: Γκαζώνει η κατασκευή από Λαχαναγορά μέχρι Ευκαρπία|url=http://ypodomes.com/index.php/autokinitodromoi/astikoi/periferiaki-thessalonikis/item/23205-περιφερειακή-θεσσαλονίκης-γκαζώνει-η-κατασκευή-από-λαχαναγορά-μέχρι-ευκαρπία|date=8 January 2014|accessdate=20 February 2015}}{{Cite web|date=2019-12-24|title=Ολοκληρώνονται τα έργα στη Δυτική Περιφερειακή Θεσσαλονίκης, έρχεται το ΣΔΙΤ|url=https://ypodomes.com/oloklironontai-ta-erga-sti-dytiki-perifereiaki-thessalonikis-erchetai-to-sdit/|access-date=2020-06-04|website=Ypodomes.com|language=el}}
The A24 motorway forms the 21 km main section of the Inner Ring. Following the outline of the city's eastern periphery, it separates the city from the forests of Kedrinos Lofos (Cedar Hill) known as "Seich Sou" (Sheikh's water). When the road was planned in the 1970s, this fact drew massive protests by what would become the country's pioneer environmentalist movement, the Ecological Movement of Thessaloniki.
In southern Thessaloniki, A123 motorway forms a short extension of the Thessaloniki Inner Ring connecting it with National Road 16 and the Thessaloniki Airport.
Exit list
{{RJL|date=November 2021}}
| class="wikitable" |
| scope=col | Regional unit
! scope=col | Part of ! scope=col | Exit ! scope=col | Name ! scope=col | Destinations ! scope=col | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="28" |Thessaloniki
| | K16 | Kalochori interchange | 36x36px New Western Entrance | |
| rowspan="7" | File:Autokinetodromos A121 number.png
| K17 | {{Interlanguage link multi|Monastiriou St.|el|3=Οδός Μοναστηρίου (Θεσσαλονίκη)}} |
| |23 July 1974 St., Ano Kordelio
| |
| |Ano Kordelio
| | |
| | Meandros St., Evosmos
| | |
| |Makriyannis St., Stavroupoli
| | |
| K18
|{{Interlanguage link multi|Langadas St.|el|3=Οδός Λαγκαδά (Θεσσαλονίκη)}}, Stavroupoli | |
| | 25 March St., Efkarpia
| | |
| | K5
| Efkarpia | cont. File:Autokinetodromos A24 number.svg | |
| rowspan = 7 | File:Autokinetodromos A24 number.svg[https://www.motorways-exits.com/europe/gr/a25.html Motorways-exits: A25]
| K6 | Polichni | | |
| K7
| Kastra | | |
| K7A
| | |
| K8
| | |
| K9
| | |
| K10
| Pylaia/Malakopi | | |
| K11
| | |
| | K12
| Kalamaria interchange | cont. File:Autokinetodromos A24 number.svg | |
| rowspan=2 | 43x43px[https://www.motorways-exits.com/europe/gr/a123.html Motorways-exits: A123]
| | Poseidonos | | |
| | Ethnikis Antistaseos
| |
References
{{Commons category|Thessaloniki Inner Ring Road}}
{{reflist|30em}}
{{Greekroads}}
Category:Roads in Central Macedonia