Portal:Roads
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Roads, defined as a path connecting two points, are generally classified into a hierarchy. At the top of the hierarchy are freeways (US) (UK: motorways), which serve entirely a function of moving vehicles between other roads. Freeways are grade-separated and limited access, have high speeds and carry heavy flows. Below freeways are arterials. These may not be grade-separated, and while access is still generally limited, it is not limited to the same extent as freeways, particularly on older roads. These serve both a movement and an access function. Next are collector/distributor roads. These serve more of an access function, allowing vehicles to access the network from origins and destinations, as well as connecting with smaller, local roads, that have only an access function, and are not intended for the movement of vehicles with neither a local origin nor destination. Local roads are designed to be low speed and carry relatively little traffic.
The design of roads is specified in a number of design manual, including the AASHTO Policy on the Geometric Design of Streets and Highways (or Green Book). Relevant concerns include the alignment of the road, its horizontal and vertical curvature, its super-elevation or banking around curves, its thickness and pavement material, its cross-slope, and its width. Fundamentals of Transportation/Geography and Networks
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Autobahn is the German word for a major high-speed road restricted to motor vehicles capable of driving at least 60 km/h (37 mph) and having full control of access, similar to a motorway or freeway in English-speaking countries.In most countries, it usually refers to the German autobahn specifically. The recommended speed of the German autobahn is 130 km/h (81 mph), but there is no general speed limit. Austrian and Swiss autobahns have general speed limits of 130 km/h (81 mph) and 120 km/h (75 mph), respectively. In German, the word is pronounced as described above, and its plural is Autobahnen; in English, however, the segment "auto" is typically pronounced as in other English words such as "automobile". The official name of the autobahn in Germany is Bundesautobahn (BAB) (Federal Freeway). Autobahns are built and maintained by the federal government (as are the federal highways), thus the name "Federal Freeway". The first were built in the 1920s, and in the 1930s the official name was "Reichsautobahn" (Freeways of the Reich).
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- January 29 - Pinkie Road is a proposed 4 lane twinned highway connector road linking two National Highway System routes (Saskatchewan Highway 1 (the Trans Canada Highway) and Highway 11) as a part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative (APGCI).[1]
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- July 28 - Tim McLean was stabbed and beheaded while riding a Greyhound Canada bus about 18 miles (29 km) west of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba traveling the Trans Canada Highway.[2]
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The Cross-Harbour Tunnel is the first tunnel in Hong Kong built underwater beneath the Victoria Harbour.
Credit: (WiNG)
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... that a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada?
..that 24 Royal Marines cadets aged 10 to 13 were killed when a double-decker bus ploughed into their marching column in the 1951 Gillingham bus disaster, setting a new British record of fatalities in a road accident?
- WikiProject Highways—principal WikiProject
- U.S. Roads—United States state highways and county roads
- U.S. Streets—United States city streets
- Canada Roads—Canada provincial highways
- Canada Streets—Canada city streets
- WikiProject UK Roads—roads in the United Kingdom
- London transport—roads and etc
- Paris Streets
- China Transportation—includes expressways, ring roads, Roads, national highways, etc
- Germany transportation
- Indian Roads
- Nepal transportation
- Scotland transport—includes road and bus transport in Scotland
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Teen Murti Chowk (The "Three Statue" roundabout) in New Delhi, India, directly in front of Teen Murti Bhavan
Credit: Rakesh Agrawal (Rakeshagrawal)
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Template:/box-header The following entries are categories relating to road transport:
- What are portals?
- List of portals
- Featured portals
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- ↑ Police don't know what prompted vicious bus attack, CTV.ca, July 31, 2008. Accessed August 6, 2008.
