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
  • 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
  • Solana is actively scaling its mainnet infrastructure, creating a superhighway for future growth without fragmenting liquidity across L2s.
    Amor Sexton, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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, meanwhile, were able to clear the streets of Dublin after crowds formed for the non-existent parade.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 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
  • And despite the junta’s tight grip over the internet, people have found ways to bypass censors.
    Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In the surgery, a healthy blood vessel from the leg, chest or arm is removed and attached as a bypass around the blockage.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The spark of war A causeway that crossed the Tollense River, constructed about 500 years before the battle, is thought to have been the starting point of the conflict, said study coauthor Thomas Terberger.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Posted by City of South Pasadena, FL on Thursday, September 26, 2024 In Treasure Island, Florida, the force of the storm slammed boats into homes along the city's main causeway.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2024

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“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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