R1 ring road (Belgium)

The R1 is the ring road around the city of Antwerp, Belgium.

R1
Route information
Maintained by the Roads and Traffic Agency of the Flemish government
Length	17 km (11 mi)
Major junctions
From	Antwerpen-Noord junction
	Antwerpen-Noord junction E 19 / A1, A12 1 Merksem N129 Merksem Viaduct 2 Deurne N129, N120 Antwerpen-Oost junction E 313 / E 34 / A13 3 Borgerhout N184 4 Berchem N1 Antwerpen-Zuid junction A12, E 19 / A1, N155 5 La Grellelaan N150 Antwerpen-Centrum junction A122 5a Het Zuid N113 Kennedytunnel 6 Linkeroever N70 Antwerpen-West junction E 17 / A14 7 Sint-Anna Linkeroever E 34 / A11 N49a
To	Sint-Anna Linkeroever
Highway system
Motorways in Belgium

The ring road is not complete; however, its completion is planned with the long running proposed construction of the Oosterweel Link which would cross the Scheldt river. The existing Scheldt crossing is via the Kennedy Tunnel. In order to increase the liveability of the Antwerp people by diminishing particulate matter and noise disturbance, the organisation Ringland proposed that the ring road would be fully roofed.[1]

The road is largely built on the area of the former Brialmont Fortress around the city of Antwerp, which was constructed between 1859 and 1863.[2]

In the course of planning the procurement of the construction works, the Flemish authorities raised several queries with the European Commission, intending to ensure that their plans did not conflict with EU public procurement law. One query related to their proposal to award a concession contract, without market consultation, to SA Tunnel Liefkenshoek for the construction and operation of a new link from the River Scheldt to Antwerp, in reply to which it was confirmed that the proposed concession was "unlikely to give rise to problems of compatibiloty with Eueopean public procurement law".[3]

Antwerp ring road