median strip

noun

: a paved or planted strip dividing a highway into lanes according to direction of travel

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Norma and David had converted the median strip beyond their sidewalk into a native-plant repository—Christmas fern, aster, monarda, bergamot. —

Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024 Hardesty said motorists may not understand that traffic traveling in both directions is required to stop when a school bus is displaying a stop arm, unless the highway is divided by a physical barrier, such as a median strip. —

Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024 That stretch now has four lanes for cars, two parking lanes, two unprotected bike lanes and a median strip. —

Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024 Another video from a different tester showed the Cybertruck heading toward a median strip. —

Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for median strip