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Jalan Ampang at night, with the Petronas Twin Towers visible in the background in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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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Highway 401 west of the Don Valley Parkway/Highway 404 junction.
A freeway is a type of road designed for safer high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections. This is accomplished by preventing access to and from adjacent properties and eliminating all cross traffic through the use of grade separations and interchanges; railroad crossings are also removed. Such highways are usually divided with at least two lanes in each direction. Because traffic never crosses at-grade, there are generally no traffic lights or stop signs. Some countries have roads that function as freeways but use different names. These include autobahn, autovía, autoroute, autopista, autostrada, autosnelweg, motorway (in the UK and Ireland) and expressway (in India and Asia).

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A6 interchange in Orehovica near Rijeka, Croatia
Credit: Roberta F.

Did you know

...that speed limits on Guam Highway 1 may differ depending on which side of the road you are on?
...that Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada's second largest saline lake?

... that the 2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water?

WikiProjects

  • WikiProject Highways—principal WikiProject
    • U.S. Roads—United States state highways and county roads
    • U.S. Streets—United States city streets
    • Australian Roads—Australian highways, principal roads, and main city streets
    • Canada Roads—Canada provincial highways
    • Canada Streets—Canada city streets
    • WikiProject UK Roads—roads in the United Kingdom
      • London transport—roads, etc.
    • Paris Streets
    • China Transportation—includes expressways, ring roads, Roads, national highways, etc
    • Germany transportation
    • Indian Roads
    • Nepal transportation
    • Pakistani Roads
    • Scotland transport—includes road and bus transport in Scotland

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  • Articles to FA: Any of those which are at GA- or at A-Class and can be improved.
  • Peer review: highways peer review—a special peer review dedicated to highways.
  • Copyedit: Please copy edit to format any new articles and add talk page templates
  • Photo request: Just about all of them! Any pictures of Highways regions, road surface or infrastruture varieties or Highways would be useful. In particular we need Highways region maps that can be licensed for Wikipedia.
  • Collaboration: Operation stub-killer, Nominations for top level importance
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  • Other: Comment on the templates, templates and route or junction boxes
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