Crossword clues for carriageway
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
carriageway \carriageway\ n. one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only, usually in two or three lanes. [British]
Wiktionary
n. The part of a road that carries traffic.
WordNet
n. one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes
Wikipedia
A carriageway ( North American English: roadway) consists of a width of road on which a vehicle is not restricted by any physical barriers or separation to move laterally. A carriageway generally consists of a number of traffic lanes together with any associated shoulder, but may be a sole lane in width (for example, a highway offramp).
A single carriageway road (North American English: undivided highway) has one carriageway with 1, 2 or more lanes together with any associated footways (North American English: sidewalk) and road verges (North American English: tree belt). A dual carriageway road (North American English: divided highway) has two roadways separated by a central reservation (North American English: median). A local-express lane system (also called collector-express or collector-distributor) has more than two roadways, typically two sets of 'local lanes' or 'collector lanes' and also two sets of 'express lanes'. "Cars only" lanes may be physically separated from those open to mixed traffic including trucks and buses. The New Jersey Turnpike ( I-95) in the United States, utilises this design from the Pennsylvania Turnpike to its northern terminus at the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee. High-occupancy vehicle lanes may also be physically separated from the remainder of the general traffic lanes as a distinct roadway. Some cities such as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have many bus-only roadways to alleviate congestion related to public transit buses, despite its very challenging topography which severely limits the extent to which arterial roadways can be added or augmented.
Usage examples of "carriageway".
The dual carriageway, which had become just one lane on each side for a while, now reasserted itself.
You had to cross the dual carriageway, and then go up a twisty-turny road which the locals called 'the thirteen-bend road'.
They had to take shelter from several of these showers, and when they finally got down to the dual carriageway again, they found hailstones as big as marbles lying around on the road, steaming bizarrely in the bright sunshine.
The Brown Bull of Cooley was seen crossing the dual carriageway north of Shannon.
The dual carriageway wasn't there, but they could recognize the Glen of the Downs as the Good People's horses left it swiftly behind them.
Air slid out and away from them, and they were standing not far from the far side of the dual carriageway, near the pub that stood there.
You've been picking up road-kills by the dual carriageway again, Great Queen.
And of course this woman looked exactly as she had when I'd seen her ghost in the carriageway earlier this evening, and exactly as she had on the day of her death.
These two spirits stood in the carriageway and spoke together, intimately, tête-a-tête, their eyes fixed on me.
Traffic on the opposite carriageway had also been stopped by the police, the flashing blue lights slowing to red as they shone through the fringes of the black mass, distorting the image of the road beyond like the refraction on the edge of a jam jar.
The cars that had been blocking the carriageway were turned round and directed swiftly back down the hard shoulder at a furious rate.
The cars that had been blocking the carriageway were turned round and directed swiftlyback down the hard shoulder at a furious rate.
It seemed an odd type of holiday option to me, the idea of sleeping in a tin box in a lonesome field miles from anywhere in a climate like Britain's and emerging each morning with hundreds of other people from identical tin boxes, crossing the rail line and dual carriageway and hiking over a desert of sinkholes in order to dip your toes in a distant sea full of Liverpool turds.
Dust was raised from the carriageway and, caught in the slats of morning sunlight, turned to gold.
It was set on a long green sward split by an ochre sweep of carriageway flanked on either side by a row of lime trees.