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thruway

n. (context US nonstandard English) (alternative form of throughway English)

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thruway

n. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic [syn: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway]

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Thruway

Thruway may refer to:

  • Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach, an intercity busing service operated by Amtrak
  • Harbor Tunnel Thruway, a freeway in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • New York State Thruway, a toll highway in New York, United States
  • In its most generic sense, another term for controlled-access highway

Usage examples of "thruway".

Philadelphia Barracks of the North American Continental Thruway Patrol.

A broad belt of multi-colored lines representing the eastern segment of North American Thruway 26 flashed onto the map in a band extending from Philadelphia to St.

The thruway went on to Los Angeles in its western segment, not shown on the map.

Continental Thruway system that spanned North America from coast to coast and crisscrossed north and south under the Three Nation Road Compact from the southern tip of Mexico into Canada and Alaska.

Violators of thruway law were cited into NorCon district traffic courts located in the nearest city to each access port along every thruway.

Three minutes later, they emerged from the tunnel into the red patrol lane of Continental Thruway 26-West.

The new voice paused, and across the continent, troopers on every thruway, control station, checkpoint and relay block, reached for clipboard and pen.

The thruway climbed easily up the slight grade cut through the hills north of Wheeling, West Virginia, and once more snow began falling.

Viewing cameras mounted on towers between each lane, lined the thruway, aimed eastward at the on-coming traffic back to the next bank of cameras ten miles away.

Pieces of car and bodies were scattered for a mile down the thruway and the only whole, identifiable human bodies were those of the three youngsters thrown out and sent hurtling to their deaths more than two hundred feet away.

More vehicles streamed onto the westbound thruway, crossing over and dropping down into the same lanes they held coming out of the north-south road.

Harmon Pierce Haverstraw, age five minutes, temporary address, North American Continental Thruway 26-West, Mile Marker 632.

The fewer passenger cars on the thruway and the increase in cargo carriers gave the troopers a breathing spell.

The snow had started falling again and in the mid-morning light it tended to soften the harsh, utilitarian landscape of the broad thruway stretching ahead to infinity and spreading out in a mile of speeding traffic on either hand.

They shot through the crossover into the yellow lane and now were hurtling down the thruway close to the four-hundred-mile-an-hour mark.