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Castle Roads, in Bermuda. An example of the maritime application of the word roads.

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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The Millau Viaduct (French: le Viaduc de Millau) is a large cable-stayed road-bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France. Designed by the structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and British architect Norman Foster, it is the tallest vehicular bridge in the world, with one mast's summit at 343 metres (1,125 ft) — slightly taller than the Eiffel Tower and only 38 m (125 ft) shorter than the Empire State Building. The viaduct is part of the A75-A71 autoroute axis from Paris to Béziers. It was formally dedicated on 14 December 2004, inaugurated the day after and opened to traffic two days later. The bridge won the 2006 IABSE Outstanding Structure Award.

The bridge’s construction broke three world records:

The highest pylons in the world: pylons P2 and P3, 244.96 metres (803 ft 8 in) and 221.05 metres (725 ft 3 in) in height respectively.
The highest mast in the world: the mast atop pylon P2 peaks at 343 metres (1,125 ft).
The highest road bridge deck in the world, 270 m (890 ft) above the Tarn River at its highest point.

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Image 1The 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 2Annual traffic deaths sign over I-95 in Georgia, US, indicating more than three deaths per day (from Road traffic safety)
Image 3Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from History of road transport)
Image 4John 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 5An orange diamond sign for upcoming roadworks. The worded legend shown here is banned by the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, but is allowed in the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. (from Roadworks)
Image 6Replacing the old road with concrete blocks in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China (from Road surface)
Image 7Speed limits in different areas, unusually with only a "recommended" limit (130 km/h) for the Autobahn (from Road traffic safety)
Image 8Highway repairs near Manali, India (from Roadworks)
Image 9Concrete pavers (from Road surface)
Image 10Road workers crushing rocks, in the mountains near Kullu (from Roadworks)
Image 11The 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 12A concrete road in Ewing, New Jersey. (from Road surface)
Image 13Laying asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 14Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain (from History of road transport)
Image 15A road being resurfaced using a road roller (from Road surface)
Image 16Jan Brueghel (I) - Travellers on the Way, second half of 16th Century (from History of road transport)
Image 17An example of composite pavement: hot-mix asphalt overlaid onto Portland cement concrete pavement (from Road surface)
Image 18Concrete roadway in San Jose, California (from Road surface)
Image 19Red surfacing for a bicycle lane in the Netherlands (from Road surface)
Image 20Sacrifices 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 21Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China. (from Roadworks)
Image 22Deteriorating asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 23Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional hwy 375 in Israel (from Road surface)
Image 24Closeup of asphalt on a driveway (from Road surface)
Image 25According 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 26Vehicles 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 27Pateros Traffic Enforcer And Roadworks Road Closed Construction in Pateros, Metro Manila, Philippines. (from Roadworks)
Image 28The 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 29Guard rail on road in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) (from Road traffic safety)
Image 30Safe from traffic for cycling along a fully segregated Fietspad, properly designed cycling infrastructure in Amsterdam (from Road traffic safety)
Image 31Map of Roman roads in 125CE (from History of road transport)
Image 32German roadworks sign. In other European countries, the signs are similar. (from Roadworks)
Image 33Utrecht has specially painted bicycle-only lanes. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 34Different layers of road including asphalt layer. The total thickness of a pavement can be measured using granular base equivalency (from Road surface)
Image 35Car 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 36Historical map of the original A8-A9 motorway, Italy. The first motorway ever built in the world was opened on 21 September 1924. (from History of road transport)
Image 37Polymer cement overlaying to change asphalt pavement to brick texture and color to create decorative crosswalk (from Road surface)
Image 38Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City (from Road surface)
Image 39According 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 40Pavement ends and turns into gravel surface road (from Road surface)
Image 41Gravel road in Namibia (from Road surface)
Image 42A road work at the Torikatu street in Oulu, Finland. (from Roadworks)

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Interchange in Dubai, United Arab Emirates where Al Quta'eyat Road and Zabeel Road meet adjacent to Zabeel Park (on the left in the picture) next to the neighborhoods of Zabeel (at the bottom), Karama (in the upper left), and Oud Metha (in the upper right).
Credit: Imre Solt

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Did you know

...that Gustavus Blin Wright, a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada, built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?

...that Manitoba Provincial Road 373 became famous after a band from Norway House won an award for an album named after the highway?

...that the Battle of Dombås was a German attempt during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign at using Fallschirmjägers to cut rail and road links in central Norway?

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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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A view of the Tidel Park junction on Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Chennai. The Thiruvanmiyur station on the Chennai MRTS can be seen on the left.
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