(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.
Traffic
Definition:
(v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
(v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
(v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
(v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
(v.) Commodities of the market.
(v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
Example Sentences:
(1) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(2) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(4) Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells.
(5) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
(6) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
(7) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(8) 75% of Bundles site traffic is coming from returning users."
(9) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(10) However, most deaths were due to traffic accidents.
(11) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
(12) They didn’t know the dangers that they were putting myself, themselves and passing air traffic in.
(13) In Experiment 1 subjects viewed a slide sequence depicting a traffic accident.
(14) Two hundred and forty-four motor car occupants involved in road traffic accidents, who sustained injuries sufficiently severe to require admission to hospital, have been investigated in order to assess the value of seat belts.
(15) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(16) The plane lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom on Wednesday morning.
(17) To examine the molecular traffic and sites of metabolism of PAF released in the vascular wall, we used a coculture system in which endothelial cells are grown on micropore filters suspended over confluent cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells.
(18) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(19) Analysis of time-dependent development of various events in man's life (diseases, traumas traffic accidents, normal delivery, death because of diseases) and physiological processes allowed to reveal the presence of intradian cycle in their dynamics with the period about 4-6 hs.
(20) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.