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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contraflow
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the police blame the tailbacks on motorists driving too fast through the contraflow and causing accidents.
▪ In the meantime, motorists caught speeding through the contraflow can expect to receive a court summons in the post.
▪ There's a contraflow between junctions 15 and 16 near Swindon.
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contraflow

n. 1 Flow in the opposite direction to normal. 2 An abnormal state of a road or motorway where the traffic temporarily travels in the opposite direction to normal, usually as a result of repair work or an accident.

Usage examples of "contraflow".

The road was contraflowed ahead, long rows of cones stretched across the thermo-hardened cellulose surface.

Richard strode through the car park and its exemplary diversity of stilled traffic, like an illustration of all you might meet on the contemporary road with its contraflow and intercool: hearse, heap, dragster, dump truck, duchess-wagon, cripple-bubble.

There areall the other manifold annoyances of motoring, like National Express drivers who pull out in front of you on motorways, eight-mile-long contraflow systems erected so that some guys on a crane can change a lightbulb, traffic lights on busy roundabouts that never let you advance more than twenty feet at a time, motorway service areas where you have to pay £4.