Climate, road safety, quality of life and traffic congestion are constantly increasing challenges for road authorities in urban areas around the world. The Dutch city of Almelo is challenged to keep its traffic flowing, to lower vehicle emissions and to increase social and road safety. Connecting road users and road side equipment will play a key role in cities that want to reduce and resolve these problems. Almelo is conducting an exciting and challenging project to introduce connected and predictive traffic light control algorithms on an entire ring road, considering all modes of transport and securing save passage for emergency services. In total the Almelo ring can be perceived as very innovative ring road. Using connected intelligent Traffic Light Controllers based on standardized Talking Traffic 1 protocols, Almelo is fulfilling the objectives mentioned above. This paper describes the project, the state of affair and future research and developments.