The A594 Central Ring is the name of Leicester's central distributor road network. With ongoing regeneration of the inner city, the Central Ring is becoming evermore an itinerary within the city centre rather than one that encloses it. Although ubiquitous, this process is most apparent in the vicinity of 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.