It was built as a dual carriageway with very wide central reservations to allow for future grade separation of the junctions, which has never happened.

The St. George's Roundabout has a wishbone bridge running through it which carries the Metro light rail line from the City Centre to Bilston Road.

The southern section of the ring road was home to Josef Stawinoga, a Polish immigrant known locally as "Fred the Tramp".

He set up home in a tent on the ring road's central reservation soon after it opened in the 1960s, and lived there until his death in October 2007 at the age of 86.

As part of the rebuilding of Wolverhampton Railway Station, a new road access and taxi rank was built off Sun Street with the existing bridge now used by the Midland Metro extension as well as access for parking for station staff.