dual carriageway

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of dual carriageway Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads. The Economist, 23 May 2020 The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Fox News, 16 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dual carriageway
Noun
  • Getting Around Oslo With high road tolls and expensive, hard-to-find parking, driving in Oslo can quickly become a hassle, putting a damper on your weekend.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Rounding out the top three is Switzerland, which also has a very low road traffic death rate of 2.2 per 100,000 people, low fuel and EV charging costs, and a very high road quality score of 6.3 out of 7.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • The Chippewa and Black rivers are tributaries of the Mississippi River, which has functioned as a superhighway for invasive carp to travel.
    Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2024
  • India's plans include completing construction on the Golden Quadrilateral, a multibillion-dollar superhighway linking New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, and Mumbai.
    Evan A. Feigenbaum, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2010
Noun
  • Judge Alexander Milne has also barred the three Just Stop Oil activists from taking part in any protest action within the M25, the major ring road in London.
    Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The march was due to end in front of parliament, further along the capital's inner ring road.
    Reuters, Reuters, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In terms of location, Germany is also an ideal target for cross-border crime: Neighboring the Netherlands and linked by motorways on some of which speed limits don’t apply.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
  • This led to the system at one point being convinced that the speed limit on a motorway was 70 kph, some way short of the 130 kph other traffic was traveling at.
    Alex Goy, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • People pass by on the street as Hurricane Rafael passes by Havana, Cuba, on Wednesday.
    Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Police released surveillance and body-camera footage showing a crowd of thousands of people in the streets when the suspect opened fire, causing chaos as people fled.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There was also traffic backed up for miles on the interstate.
    Stephanie Claytor, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024
  • According to Fox 19, the interstate was already closed in Newport ahead of the bridge but police extended the closure up to Interstate 275 before 7:30 a.m.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Huge pipes will soon drain the aqueduct so the bypass can be connected.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 5 Oct. 2024
  • And despite the junta’s tight grip over the internet, people have found ways to bypass censors.
    Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • After the bridge and causeway were completed in 1972, the value of an acre on Skidaway skyrocketed.
    Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
  • During two stretches in July and August, road construction will again close the ramps connecting the westbound causeway connecting Virginia Key and Key Biscayne to the Miami mainland.
    Adlai Coleman, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024

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“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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