Maintenance work on the St Alkmund's Way section of the inner ring road begins on 21 January and is expected to last until June.

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He said the revolutionary underpasses had become frightening and the inner ring road had pushed working class Birmingham into the periphery of the city.

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During the maintenance three bridges carrying the inner ring road will be refurbished, new lighting will be installed and 600m (1, 968ft) of concrete barriers will be replaced.

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Built in the 1970s, Derby's inner ring road is used by almost 60, 000 vehicles on an average weekday and at peak times more than 4, 000 cars, buses and lorries use the section of road every hour.

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Grapes Hill on the inner city ring road was closed for several hours as vehicles struggled to get up its steep slope.

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Most so-called Parisians live outside the historic inner city, in a patchwork of communes and communities that lie beyond the outer ring road.

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