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  2. Overpass - Wikipedia

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    In North American usage, a flyover is a high-level overpass, built above main overpass lanes, or a bridge built over what had been an at-grade intersection.Traffic engineers usually refer to the latter as a grade separation.

  3. Clearance (civil engineering) - Wikipedia

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    The clearance for overhead signs is 5.7 metres (18 ft 8 in) and the clearance for the soffit or underside of overpasses is 10 metres (32 ft 10 in). [ 6 ] In South Africa and the southern region of Africa, the minimum vertical clearance of modern bridges is 5 metres (16 ft 5 in), although the legal height limit of road vehicles is still at 4.3 ...

  4. List of satellite pass predictors - Wikipedia

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    The observer would see a bright object appear in the northwest, which would move across the sky to a point almost overhead, where it disappears from view, in the space of three minutes. The following is a list of tools on a variety of platforms that may be used to predict the pass of an orbiting artificial satellite over a given point on Earth.

  5. Road signs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Toll Road Pass Only (Overhead) R3-44a Toll Road Pass or High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) (Overhead) R3-44b Express lane only (Overhead) R3-45 Express lane ends (Overhead)

  6. Interstate Highway standards - Wikipedia

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    Vertical clearance: The minimum vertical clearance under overhead structures, such as bridges, is 16 feet (4.9 m), including both paved shoulders and an allowance for extra layers of pavement. Through urban areas, at least one routing is to have 16-foot (4.9 m) clearances, but others may have a lesser clearance of 14 feet (4.3 m).

  7. Overhead line crossing - Wikipedia

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    An overhead line crossing is the crossing of an obstacle—such as a traffic route, a river, a valley or a strait—by an overhead power line. The style of crossing depends on the local conditions and regulations at the time the power line is constructed.

  8. Orbital pass - Wikipedia

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    Visible pass of the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis over Tampa, Florida, on mission STS-132, May 18, 2010 (five-minute exposure). An orbital pass (or simply pass) is the period in which a spacecraft is above the local horizon, and thus available for line-of-sight communication with a given ground station, receiver, or relay satellite, or for visual sighting.

  9. Footbridge - Wikipedia

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    Women heading to market across a footbridge in Nahulingo, El Salvador A footbridge in Shaharah District, Yemen. A footbridge (also a pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, or pedestrian overcrossing) is a bridge designed solely for pedestrians. [1]