(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.
Weighbridge
Definition:
(n.) A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
Example Sentences:
(1) The researchers established a tent clinic at the Athi River Weighbridge Police Station near Nairobi, Kenya, where convoys of trucks stop for 3-5 days.