roadway
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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
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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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