What's the difference between carriageway and footway?

Carriageway


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And with the grimy dual carriageway of the Cromwell Road cutting across it, it's no wonder that many pedestrians preferred to take the dank Victorian tunnel that runs under Exhibition Road from the tube station to the Science Museum.
  • (2) * * * On a fine spring day, I left the M1 at junction 14 and followed the broad dual-carriageway of the H5 grid-road into MK between banks of primroses and bright-green hawthorn.
  • (3) The speed of the snow led to the closure of roads, including the M62 trans-Pennine motorway where the eastbound carriageway was closed after traffic slithered around on the steep ascent and descent between Rochdale and Huddersfield.
  • (4) While the motorway network was quiet, as drivers appeared to heed warnings not to travel, the M20 in Kent was affected by Operation Stack, where lorries heading for the Channel ports are parked on the carriageway.
  • (5) Rather than intelligent foresight, or a difference in the mindset of those in power, he suggests the Danish capital’s avoidance of major carriageways is down to good fortune.
  • (6) Kerry says Shepherd’s personal experiences inspired the scene where Ian walks down a dual carriageway in despair.
  • (7) Motorists heading north sweep on to the Newry ring road on a handsome new EU-financed dual carriageway , the only sign they are entering the UK coming when the speed limits change from kilometres per hour to miles.
  • (8) One, a dual carriageway with streetlights, led all the way to my father-in-law’s home.
  • (9) Police and service vehicles were driving up and down the westbound carriageway,” the IT worker, 50, travelling with his family to his home town of Giessen, near Frankfurt, told the Press Association.
  • (10) The A66 was one of the worse hit routes, with cars colliding and skidding off the carriageway.
  • (11) Exhibition Road is the largest example of such a space in Britain, although it is not the purest, as there is some slight differentiation between carriageway and footway.
  • (12) This will allow road users to drive on a dual carriageway from London to within 15 miles of Land’s End.
  • (13) The most eye-catching proposal is to spend £2bn turning the A303 into a strategic corridor to the south-west, partly by building a 1.8-mile dual-carriageway tunnel at Stonehenge.
  • (14) In MK, the modern and natural co-exist – lines of trees fattened on dual-carriageway mucus, densely vegetated roundabouts like conservation sites.
  • (15) Just past the Tot Hill McDonald’s, 20ft above the northbound carriageway of the Newbury bypass in Berkshire, an old oak stands over hundreds of young saplings.
  • (16) The HS2 joins a long catalogue of attempts at by-passes, dual carriageways and a spur to Manchester's metro trams which make local environmentalists among the most seasoned campaigners in the UK.
  • (17) The £2bn scheme would see the road put into a dual carriageway tunnel past Stonehenge, reducing congestion and improving the setting of the stones - giving the public greater access to the wider prehistoric landscape and benefiting wildlife, supporters say.
  • (18) Officers were called to 10 accidents between junctions 33 and 36 on both carriageways of the M6, though no injuries were reported.
  • (19) On a far platform, a train stood waiting to leave, its long, blue-painted carriageways crammed with boys standing, sitting and lying in luggage racks.
  • (20) Some manufacturers install cameras that detect side markings painted on the carriageway, which can then be automatically compared with steering wheel motions to alert a driver that they are moving erratically.

Footway


Definition:

  • (n.) A passage for pedestrians only.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While hoverboards have been around for only a few years, they are banned from pavements under a section of the 1835 Highways Act , which says people cannot use the footway to “lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine, or cattle or carriage of any description”.
  • (2) Exhibition Road is the largest example of such a space in Britain, although it is not the purest, as there is some slight differentiation between carriageway and footway.