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The St. Gotthard Pass road with hairpin turns in the Swiss Alps

A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, whose primary function is to serve as public spaces, the main function of roads is transportation.

There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, thoroughfares, and local roads.

The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. (Full article...)

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The Central Motorway Junction (CMJ) (also called 'Spaghetti Junction') in Auckland City, New Zealand, as seen from the Upper Queen Street bridge.
The Central Motorway Junction or CMJ, best known as Spaghetti Junction, is the intersection of New Zealand State Highways 1 and 16 south of the city centre of Auckland City, Auckland, New Zealand. It is multilevel structure (at least three traffic lanes crossing above each other in several locations) which has been described as a "fiendishly complicated, multi-layered puzzle of concrete, steel and asphalt" which carries around 200,000 vehicles a day.

The central motorway junction forms the intersection between the three major motorways of Auckland (Auckland Northern Motorway (1), Auckland Southern Motorway (1), and Northwest Motorway (16)), and provides access from these routes to the city centre. It is principally located in a series of gullies to the south and east of the CBD and in cuttings to the west.

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Downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico Quality image
Credit: (Daniel Schwen)

Did you know

...that there are trans-national highways and road networks that span entire continents, including the Pan-American Highway and the continental road networks in Asia, Africa, and Europe?
... that labourers paving Saskatchewan Highway 641 in 1942 earned 35 cents an hour and a labourer with a tractor-drawn drag earned 50 cents an hour?

...that road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom alone?

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View over the cirque of Pougnadoire and Saint-Chély-du-Tarn village, in the Tarn Gorges, from the cirque of Saint-Chély. This picture features the road D 907bis which goes alongside the Tarn river all along the gorges.
Credit: (Benh)

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