A road is a strip of land, smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel, connecting two or more destinations. Some roads are streets, chiefly in urban areas. In the context of railways (railroads in American English), a road is a single track, which may be part of a multi-track system or may be an isolated line. In the context of sea transport, a road is an anchorage. Road - Usage and etymology. In original usage, a "road" was simply any pathway fit for ridi ...

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Burdett Road is part of the North and East London Red route system. After crossing the junction with Bow Road and Mile End Road the remaining distance is called Burdett Road. It forms the western boundary of the Lansbury Estate and ceases to form the boundary of Mile End Park after passing Mile End Stadium and passing under the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. Here a crossroads is formed with St Pauls Way (B140). The road then passes over Limehouse Cut before terminating at a junction ...

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In original usage, a "road" was simply any pathway fit for riding ("road" is cognate with "ride", e.g.: ships ride at anchor in roads). The word “street,” whose origin is the Latin strata, was kept for paved pathways that had been prepared to ease travel in some way. Thus, many "Roman Roads" have the word "street" as part of their street name. However, modern usage does not usually make this distinction and it is only important since place names often hold the earlier usage in them; these days, roads are also prepared in so ...

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Cross Roads may refer to: Cross Roads, Texas Cross Roads, Pennsylvania Cross Roads, West Yorkshire In music, Cross Road is the name of a Bon Jovi compilation album, released in 1994. See also: Crossroads Other related archives1994, Bon Jovi, Cross Road, Cross Roads, Pennsylvania, Cross Roads, Texas, Crossroads, compilation album

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An arterial road is a moderate or high-capacity road which is just below a highway level of service. Much like a biological artery, an arterial road carries large volumes of traffic between areas in urban centres. They are noted for their lack of residential entrances directly onto the road (except in older or more dense communities); they are designed to carry traffic between neighbourhoods, and have intersections with collector and local streets. Often, commercial areas such as shopping centres, gas stations and other businesses are located on them. Arterial roads also li ...

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The A85 is a major road in Scotland. It runs east from Oban along the south bank of Loch Etive, through Lochawe and Tyndrum, Crianlarich, Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Crieff before terminating at Perth. The A90 road from Perth to Dundee was previously a continuation of the A85, which now reemerges nearly 20 miles east to run through the city of Dundee. Between Tyndrum and Crianlarich the road becomes the A82, ...

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Winter roads are temporary highways carved out of snow and ice. They facilitate transportation to and from communities without permanent roads, and are commonly seen in isolated regions in Canada's north. Winter roads have a crucial role in enabling goods to be brought into communities without permanent road access. In many of these communities, air transportation is used at other times of the year to bring in goods including food and supplies, but this can be prohibitively costly for bulky go ...

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The A4 is a major road in England, also known as the Great West Road. It runs from London to Avonmouth, near Bristol. Historically the road has been the main route from London to the west of England, and has formed the main western artery of London. Much of the route has now been bypassed by the M4 motorway. Starting at Holborn Circus in the City of London, it runs west into Westminster through Fleet Street, the Strand, Trafalgar Square, Haymarket, Pall Mall, Piccadilly Circus, past Green Park to Hyde Park Corner. At thi ...

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The A303 is a trunk road in England. The A303 is the main road between Basingstoke in Hampshire and Honiton in Devon. The M3, A30 and A303 make up the main route from London to South West England, running from London to Land's End in Cornwall. The A303 is almost continuously dual carriageway, except at Stonehenge and Chicklade in Wiltshire, and the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. In 2003 the Secretary of State for Transport announced major road widening schemes, including to the A303, which would include a tunnel at Stonehenge (below). As of 2005, however, the Highways Agency state that ...

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The A1, at 409 miles (658 km) long, is the longest numbered British road. It joins London, the capital city of England, to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. However, where there arises a need to distinguish between the modern road, on its bypasses and some former part of the road, where it passed through the various towns, the name "A1" is sometimes reserved for the modern road, while "the Great North Road" refers to its original course. A1 road - Origins and History. For the numbering rationale see: G ...

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Abbey Road is a throroughfare located in the borough of Camden and the City Of Westminster in London. Although there are many other roads of this name, including over 20 in London alone, the Abbey Road best known to most people is the road running roughly north-west to south-east through the affluent north London suburb of St John's Wood. The north-western end of Abbey Road, NW8, begins at the intersection of Quex Road and West End Lane; it continues south-east for several kilometres, crossing Belsize Road, Boundary Road, Blenheim Terrace and Marlborough Place, end ...

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The A3 is a trunk road in Southern England, connecting London to Portsmouth. As the major link between the capital city and one its major sea ports, and originally known as ‘the Portsmouth Road’ for much of its length, the route once had great strategic significance. Many of the towns and villages that it passed through gained income and prestige as a result - such as Kingston-upon-Thames, Esher, Guildford, Godalming, Haslemere and Petersfield. For some of its length, the road follows a similar line to the Portsmouth Direct Line railway, although one of the major exceptions is that the A3 ...

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Historically, burial at cross-roads was the method of disposing of executed criminals and suicides. At the cross-roads a rude cross usually stood, and this gave rise to the belief that these spots were selected as the next best burying-places to consecrated ground. The real explanation is that the ancient Teutonic peoples often built their altars at the cross-roads, and as human sacrifices, especially of criminals, formed part of the ritual, these spots came to be regarded as execution grounds. Hence after the introduction of Christia

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Roman road - Types of Roads. Roman roads vary from simple corduroy roads to paved roads using deep roadbeds of tamped rubble as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from between the stones and fragments of rubble, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. Prepared viae began in history as the streets of Rome. The laws of the Twelve Tables, dated to approximately 450 BC, specify that a road shall be 8 feet wide where straight and 16 where curved. The tables command Roma ...

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A curb or kerb is the edge where a raised sidewalk, road median, or road shoulder meets an unraised street or other roadway. Typically made from concrete, or earlier from long stones (often granite), the purpose is two-fold: first as a gutter for proper drainage of the roadway, and second for safety, to keep motorists from driving onto the shoulder, median, or sidewalk. As a gutter, they guide water from rain and melted snow and ice into the storm drains, so that it does not pool-up on the surface. Large puddles like thi ...

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Bon Jovi's sixth album Cross Road, released in October of 1994, was a "Best Of" release. It includes two previously unreleased songs, "Always" and "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night". Also includes "Prayer '94", a low-key re-recording of "Livin' on a Prayer" and "Blaze of Glory", a song that Jon Bon Jovi released on his first solo album of the same title. Approximate sales were in excess of four million copies. Cross Road - Track listing. "Livin' on a Prayer" - 4:41 "Keep t ...

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Cross Roads is a borough located in York County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 518. Cross Roads Pennsylvania - Geography. Cross Roads is located at 39°48'53" North, 76°34'23" West (39.814737, -76.573146)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 4.9 km² (1.9 mi²). 4.9 km² (1.9 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Cross Roads Pen ...

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Roman road - The Team. The distinction between staff and line officers applied to the Roman army as well. Among the staff officers were a unit called the architecti, "chief builders", responsible for all military construction, which road-building was. These were required to be educated men. Geometry, of course, was a central requirement of their education. The architecti had a full-time staff of agrimensores ("land surveyors") and libratores ("levellers"). The teams of construction workers were taken ad ho ...

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Norway has a 60 year long experience in road tolling for financing bridges, tunnels and roads. Until the beginning of the 80's contributions of tolls to the road building budget stagnated at about 5%, since then it has soared to more than 25% in 2000. Those twenty years were marked by the advance of road tolling in urban areas. Norwegian authorities closely monitored Singapore's use of tolls as a means to discourage urban traffic and Oslo got its first toll zone outside the ring road in 1987. Any driver wishing to enter central Oslo b ...

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