What's the difference between carriageway and roadway?

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.

Roadway


Definition:

  • (n.) A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roadway design improvements such as removal of fixed objects from roadsides, widening roadside recovery zones, installing dividers between opposing lanes of traffic, and replacing fixed utility poles with breakaway designs, have been effective in reducing crashes and injuries.
  • (2) Last year, Russia built a major roadway in the far-eastern city of Vladivostok, in time for it to host an annual summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum.
  • (3) This paper investigates the injury mechanisms of occupants of pickup trucks and the surfaces that the occupants contact in roadway accidents.
  • (4) The outcome confirms and expands upon conclusions derived from less formal studies about how drivers perceive other roadway users.
  • (5) But this primitive security measure was not enough to deter the IRA from launching a mortar attack on John Major’s cabinet from a Ford Transit van from the roadway on the other side of Downing Street.
  • (6) During the summer of 1987, we investigated a series of firearm assaults occurring on Los Angeles County (California) roadways.
  • (7) The case is presented of a 26-year-old male who was injured whilst resting in the rear of a moving vehicle that left the roadway and rolled in remote central Australia.
  • (8) Schools, financial markets and government offices were closed on Tuesday as flooding on major roadways made travel impossible.
  • (9) Sheriff's dispatch said early Saturday that the roadway had been reopened, but the office did not have any information on the stranded cars.
  • (10) Safety belt effectiveness for drivers is higher in single-car crashes than in multiple-vehicle crashes, but does not depend much on a variety of other vehicle factors (for example, car size), accident factors (travel speed), roadway factors (posted speed limit), and environmental factors (light versus dark).
  • (11) For children who were over five years of age, accidents on the roadway as pedestrians (58% of deaths) and pedal-cyclists (20% of deaths) were the most-common causes of death.
  • (12) ‘A monstrous and useless folly’ The Lower Manhattan Expressway was an effort to tie up the loose ends of local roadways by extending Interstate 78 – all 10 lanes of it – from the Holland Tunnel to the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges.
  • (13) In Japan, where many people in large cities have been living near major roadways, the increase of automobile exhaust due to heavy traffic congestion will predictably cause a greater impact on people living near major roadways.
  • (14) Though Davis said on Tuesday her relationship with God precluded her duty as clerk to issue marriage licenses, she told the Moorehead News after winning the race last November: “[I] will be the very best working clerk that I can be and will be a good steward of their tax dollars and follow the statutes of this office to the letter.” A town of about 6,800, Morehead is situated along a roadway, about 65 miles from the city of Lexington.
  • (15) An association between increase in pollutant levels and the distance from the roadway was observed.
  • (16) Throughout the morning, cleanup crews struggled to remove fallen trees and branches from major roadways.
  • (17) The water was rising and running across the roadway rapidly and the troopers were concerned for these individuals’ safety.
  • (18) The prevalence rate of respiratory symptoms was higher in those areas nearest roadways with heavy traffic both in children and adults.
  • (19) In Missouri, the state Department of Transportation warned that most major roadways were snow-covered, it was too cold for rock salt to be very effective and the wind was whipping, causing whiteout conditions.
  • (20) Robert Moses News of the proposed roadway provoked alarm.