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dual carriageway

Brit a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a central strip of turf, etc.
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Further, the researchers concluded that the restricted crossing U-turn design should be considered for minor road intersections with four-lane divided highways where there is a sufficient volume of traffic on the minor road.
The Walker is located on the east edge of its site along Hennepin Avenue, a busy eight-lane divided highway that defines the principal public face of the building.
Stuart Davis, a life long resident of East Brunswick, realized that the two-acre parcel, located at a traffic light on a corner of the divided highway, was the perfect site.
30, which runs between Wooster and Orrville, is being upgraded and expanded from a two-lane road to a four-lane divided highway.
30, which runs between Wooster and Orrville, is being expanded from a two-lane road to a four-lane divided highway.
In fact, my hometown doesn't even have a middle of its own, unless one counts a series of nondescript municipal buildings that fly by when you're driving on the divided highway that is one of two main drags through town (the other major thoroughfare is, naturally, a second divided highway).
"He was sitting on an inner tube, sleeping," says Brown, "and I accidentally ran up on the median of this divided highway. Naturally, Teddy woke up to some discomfort, and he said, 'Son, I told you to look out for the divided highway.
Starting in Bemidji, we drive first on a four-lane divided highway. The woods there are held back; the natural marsh lands are reduced to ditch water.
Under the terms of the agreement, GVA will provide the construction of eight miles of multilane, divided highway, including a frontage road and roundabout to replace a four-way stop intersection.
The 60-acre site is slated to open in October and will include facilities to replicate a congested urban environment, slippery surfaces and a four lane divided highway with entry and exit ramps.
The project to widen Highway 226 from two lanes to a four-lane divided highway will take place in several phases, said AHTD spokesman Randy Oft.
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