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roadway

[rohd-way] / ˈroʊdˌweɪ /


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“You’d need a lot of light to light the width of a roadway that is six lanes across,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Increasingly, people are hit by cars on roads designed like Union Avenue—all while this type of roadway continues to spread across the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Debris was scattered across the roadway and Grand Avenue was temporarily closed and reopened later Friday morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Pasadena police and fire responded to a call at 10:30 p.m. and found a vehicle resting several hundred feet below the roadway, “making access extremely difficult,” said Pasadena police spokesperson Susana Porras.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

They shuffled sideways along the remaining part of the roadway and felt it shake and rumble under their feet.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

In recent years, Milwaukee started to change some dangerous roads by narrowing roadways, adding more crossing points and raising sidewalks, said Kevin Muhs, Milwaukee’s city engineer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

They also cautioned drivers about dangerous crosswinds, particularly on elevated roadways.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

People living near highways or major roadways are exposed to more air pollution and also experience higher rates of air pollution-related diseases.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

When makeshift roadblocks appeared, Minneapolis urged residents to stop erecting them, citing the need for emergency access, fire response, and roadways open for all.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

It looked like chaos at first—buildings and homes and roadways and other unknown structures all jostling for this tiny parcel of forty-nine square miles.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon


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