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A link road is a transport infrastructure road that links two conurbations or other major road transport facilities, often added because of increasing road traffic. They can be controversial, especially if they threaten to destroy natural habitat and greenfield land.
A fixed link or fixed crossing is a permanent, unbroken road or rail connection across water that uses some combination of bridges, tunnels, and causeways and does not involve intermittent connections such as drawbridges or ferries. [1] A bridge–tunnel combination is commonly used for major fixed links.
The Via Regia (king's road) is a medieval road that ran from Frankfurt am Main to Görlitz in Lower Silesia, in what is today south-west Poland. See also the Via Regia Lusatiae Superioris. An important medieval German pilgrim route was the Via Tolosana (because the most important town along the way is Toulouse, France).
Travel writer Tim Cahill wrote a book, Road Fever, about his record-setting 24-day drive from Ushuaia in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay in the U.S. state of Alaska with professional long-distance driver Garry Sowerby, much of their route following the Pan-American Highway. [34]
The first macadam road built in the United States was constructed between Hagerstown and Boonsboro, Maryland, and was named at the time Boonsborough Turnpike Road. This was the last section of unimproved road between Baltimore on the Chesapeake Bay to Wheeling on the Ohio River. Before it was macadamized, stagecoaches travelling the Hagerstown ...
The Old Plank Road is a plank road in Imperial County, California, that was built in 1915 as an east–west route over the Algodones Dunes.It effectively connected the extreme lower section of Southern California to Arizona and provided the last link in a commercial route between San Diego and Yuma.
As an All-American Road, it is promoted by the Federal Highway Administration as a notable destination. The byway is managed by Lakes to Locks Passage, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on the preservation and promotion of the natural, cultural, recreational, and historical resources along the upper Hudson River, Champlain Canal, Lake ...
National Road 94 (Polish: Droga krajowa nr 94) is a road in Poland. It runs through 5 voivodeships: Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Opole Voivodeship, Silesian Voivodeship, Lesser Poland Voivodeship and Subcarpathian Voivodeship. It is a road of GP class and partially G class. [1] The road runs as a free alternative route for A4 motorway.