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A road is a linear way for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, the main function of roads is transportation.

There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, thoroughfares, and local roads.

The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. (Full article...)

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Motorway is a term for both a type of road and a classification or designation. Motorways are high capacity roads designed to carry fast motor traffic safely. In the United Kingdom they are predominantly dual-carriageway roads, with a minimum of two lanes in each direction (typically three, and up to six on the Western section of the M25), and all have grade-separated access, comparable with North American freeways as a road type, and interstates as a classification.

In English-speaking countries the term is used in the United Kingdom (a motorway is also called a traffordd (plural: traffyrdd) in Welsh), parts of Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, some other Commonwealth nations, and Ireland (a motorway is also called a mótarbhealach (plural: mótarbhealaí) in Irish). In Ireland, a road built to motorway standard, but without the designation (and the regulations and traffic restrictions resulting from that designation), is known as a High-quality dual carriageway.

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Image 1Polymer cement overlaying to change asphalt pavement to brick texture and color to create decorative crosswalk (from Road surface)
Image 2Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional hwy 375 in Israel (from Road surface)
Image 3Different layers of road including asphalt layer. The total thickness of a pavement can be measured using granular base equivalency (from Road surface)
Image 4The Dutch Reach - Use far hand on handle when opening to avoid dooring cyclists or injuries to exiting drivers and passengers. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 5Pateros Traffic Enforcer And Roadworks Road Closed Construction in Pateros, Metro Manila, Philippines. (from Roadworks)
Image 6Guard rail on road in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) (from Road traffic safety)
Image 7Replacing the old road with concrete blocks in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China (from Road surface)
Image 8German roadworks sign. In other European countries, the signs are similar. (from Roadworks)
Image 9The Great North Road near Highgate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land. (from History of road transport)
Image 10Jan Brueghel (I) - Travellers on the Way, second half of 16th Century (from History of road transport)
Image 11Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from History of road transport)
Image 12Red surfacing for the bicycle lane in the Netherlands (from Road surface)
Image 13The schedule of maximum tolls allowed on the Woodstock to Rollright Turnpike Trust on the Great Road to Worcester in 1751 (from History of road transport)
Image 14Pavement ends and turns into gravel surface road (from Road surface)
Image 15Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China. (from Roadworks)
Image 16Gravel road in Namibia (from Road surface)
Image 17Utrecht has specially painted bicycle-only lanes. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 18According to Eurostat, there is almost a linear proportion between the total number of passenger-km driven by car and road fatalities. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 19According to Eurostat and European Railway Agency, in European railway mode of transport, there is a fatality risk for passengers and occupants 28 times lower compared with car usage. Based on data by EU-27 member nations, 2008–2010. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 20Laying asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 21Highway repairs near Manali, India (from Roadworks)
Image 22A road being resurfaced using a road roller (from Road surface)
Image 23An example of composite pavement: hot-mix asphalt overlaid onto Portland cement concrete pavement (from Road surface)
Image 24A typical MUTCD sign (from Roadworks)
Image 25Speed limits in different areas, unusually with only a "recommended" limit (130 km/h) for the Autobahn (from Road traffic safety)
Image 26Map of Roman roads in 125CE (from History of road transport)
Image 27John Metcalf, also known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough. Drawn by J R Smith in The Life of John Metcalf published 1801. (from History of road transport)
Image 28Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain (from History of road transport)
Image 29Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City (from Road surface)
Image 30Concrete roadway in San Jose, California (from Road surface)
Image 31Deteriorating asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 32Annual traffic deaths sign over I-95 in Georgia, US, indicating more than three deaths per day (from Road traffic safety)
Image 33Road workers crushing rocks, in the mountains near Kullu (from Roadworks)
Image 34A road work at the Torikatu street in Oulu, Finland. (from Roadworks)
Image 35Sacrifices to the Modern Moloch, a 1922 cartoon published in The New York Times, criticizing the apparent acceptance by society of increasing automobile-related fatalities. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 36Car fatalities per pax-km vs. car usage per pax-day; in Europe. It seems, at least in these European countries, that car fatalities per person-km have no strong correlation with massification of car usage. The average car usage in these countries is around 30km per person-day with varying number of fatalities ratios. These differences might be related with different cultural approaches to traffic codes, or more safety measures implemented on such countries (from Road traffic safety)
Image 37Safe from traffic for cycling along a fully segregated Fietspad, properly designed cycling infrastructure in Amsterdam. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 38Vehicles experiencing a breakdown or an emergency can stop in the emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 39A concrete road in Ewing, New Jersey. (from Road surface)
Image 40Closeup of asphalt on a driveway (from Road surface)
Image 41Concrete pavers (from Road surface)

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The A3(M) / M27 interchange in Farlington
Credit: Martyn Pattison

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...that Saskatchewan Highway 39 is one of the nation of Canada's busiest highways, providing ease of transport for $6 billion in trade goods via approximately 100,000 trucks over the year?"

... 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 in building Arthur De Wint Foote's Foote's Crossing Road, Italian stonemasons constructed high embankment walls above the Middle Yuba River?

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WikiProjects

WikiProject Highways—principal WikiProject
- U.S. Roads—United States state highways and county roads
- U.S. Streets—United States city streets
- Australian Roads—Australian highways, principal roads, and main city streets
- Canada Roads—Canada provincial highways
- Canada Streets—Canada city streets
- WikiProject UK Roads—roads in the United Kingdom
  - London transport—roads, etc.
- Paris Streets
- China Transportation—includes expressways, ring roads, Roads, national highways, etc
- Germany transportation
- Indian Roads
- Nepal transportation
- Pakistani Roads
- Scotland transport—includes road and bus transport in Scotland

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Cathcart, landscape around the town with Windvogelberg, view to north (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
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