What's the difference between roadway and sidewalk?

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.

Sidewalk


Definition:

  • (n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
  • (2) The way the city is set up with actual sidewalks (yes, there are many city streets in America that have no sidewalks!)
  • (3) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
  • (4) Most injuries occurred indoors (47.0%), on the sidewalk or street (22.5%), or in the residential yard (13.0%).
  • (5) I was on my way to one of those exclusive parties when I saw Mom from the taxi window; she was on the sidewalk rummaging through the trash.
  • (6) Powell is seen pacing up and down the sidewalk outside a store from which he is alleged to have stolen soft drinks and donuts.
  • (7) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
  • (8) A video of his arrest captured by a nearby security camera and published by the local TV channel ABC 7 shows the police initially frisking him, then handcuffing him and finally piling on top of Hernandez as he lay on the sidewalk while apparently hitting him with batons.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This episode opens outside South Park’s election night viewing party, where we see residents stumbling drunkenly outside and puking on the sidewalk.
  • (10) Police have said that Brown assaulted Wilson after the officer stopped him and a friend and told them to walk on the sidewalk rather than in the road.
  • (11) Although hosepipes would not be banned outright, hosing sidewalks for cleanliness with potable water would be banned and only drip or micro-spray sprinklers allowed.
  • (12) In a statement circulated to member states of the UN , Russia accused the summit of leaving the views of UN member states “on the sidewalk” in “alarming circumstances”.
  • (13) There was a dispute with police, who said protesters were blocking the sidewalk.
  • (14) I was then dumped outside on to the pavement, which I resolutely refused to think of as a "sidewalk", and I walked back to my barren hotel, stared desperately into a minibar the size of a cattle ranch, and got the next flight home.
  • (15) But old habits die hard: you still hear the hair-raising sound of someone clearing their throat and projectile phlegm on the sidewalk.
  • (16) "If they did that, you could just roll up the sidewalks and shut Ilion down," said a local business owner, Jim Crossways.
  • (17) The author had disputed claims by police that a permit granted to the event – organised by the Huffington Post website on Tuesday night – allowed them to clear the sidewalk outside the venue in the Soho district of Manhattan.
  • (18) Then, the family alleges, the senior of the two officers, Detective Aldridge, “slammed her to the sidewalk and pushed her face into the pavement.
  • (19) There’s the constant traffic belching fumes that linger in the humid air; the uneven sidewalks that have a pesky habit of vanishing halfway along the street; the sheer distances to cover in this elongated, ever-expanding metropolis.
  • (20) Given that several players not at the press conference were seen on nearby sidewalks at that time it is likely this might have been their only opportunity to see their children.