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A median strip, central reservation, roadway median, or traffic median is the reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways such as divided highways, dual carriageways, freeways, and motorways. The term also applies to divided roadways other than highways, including some major streets in urban or suburban areas.
2005 image of the Eastern Freeway looking towards the city, showing the wide median strip allocated for the proposed Doncaster railway line.. The Doncaster railway line was a long-proposed suburban railway in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, that was anticipated to be built by the late 2020s, as a branch, along with the Hurstbridge line, of the planned future Clifton Hill ...
See median strip. Circumferential highway. See ring road. City route. See business route. Clean vehicle. See green vehicle. Climbing lane A lane that allows slower travel for large vehicles, such as large trucks or semi-trailer trucks, ascending a steep grade. Closed toll collection system. See ticket system. Diagram of a cloverleaf interchange
On the controlled-access highway, opposing directions of travel are generally separated by a median strip or central reservation containing a traffic barrier or grass. Elimination of conflicts with other directions of traffic dramatically improves safety, [2] while increasing traffic capacity and speed.
ΕΥΔΕ BOAK (Ειδική Υπηρεσία Δημοσίων Έργων ΒΟΑΚ - Special State Works Service VOAK), was to manage the design and construction of Greek State Works. Median strips had dramatically reduced accidents. In the section from Linoperama to Giofyros, 1999-2001 deaths number 23, declining in the 2002-2005 period to 2. [4]
When traffic islands are longer, they are instead called traffic medians, a strip in the middle of a road, serving the divider function over a much longer distance. [2] Refuge island in Lisbon, Portugal. Some traffic islands may serve as refuge islands for pedestrians. [3]
Later, 4 meters space was left in the median strip of the expressway for the construction of the metro. [17] Later the secretary of Road Transport and Highways Division assured that the construction of the line would be done in a coordinated manner so as not to cause major damage to the expressway. He also informed that the pillar of the line ...
The Joondalup line in the freeway median. In 1991 and 1992, [18] the median strip of the entire freeway was significantly widened to accommodate the Yanchep line, being built under the Northern Suburbs Transit System project. The line was to be located in the middle of the road reserve, between the freeway carriageways. At the time, the ...