[2] It is designated the A603 and forms part of Cambridge's inner ring road.
At the northeast end there is a roundabout that links with Elizabeth Way (part of the A1134, continuing the inner ring road north) and Newmarket Road (also part of the A1134, leading east out of the city).
The Ruskin Gallery, open to the public, is part of the Cambridge School of Art on the Anglia Ruskin University East Road campus.
[3] The Cambridge County Court is on East Road.
[4] The distinctively round Cambridge Crown Court is also on East Road, at No 83, since 2004.