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Traffic islands can be used to reduce the speed of cars driving through, [1] or to provide a central refuge to pedestrians crossing the road. 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
Parliament Street, Exeter: A narrow street in the United Kingdom (64 centimetres). Fan Tan Alley: A narrow street in Victoria, Canada (90 centimetres). Mårten Trotzigs Gränd: A narrow street in Stockholm, Sweden (90 centimetres). Ulica Stjepana Konzula Istranina: A narrow street in Porec, Istria Croatia, (100 cm).
Narrow Street may take its name from the closeness of the original buildings. An 1865 report to Parliament noted that no part of Narrow Street was wider than 25 feet. [3] The Limehouse Cut for barges, which ran under Narrow Street and led to the Lee Navigation, was established in 1766.
[3] [4] Italy opened its first autostrada in 1924, A8, connecting Milan to Varese. Germany began to build its first controlled-access autobahn without speed limits (30 kilometres [19 mi] on what is now A555, then referred to as a dual highway) in 1932 between Cologne and Bonn. It then rapidly constructed the first [5] nationwide system of such ...
Strada Sforii (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈstrada ˈsforij], meaning "Rope Street", German: Fadengasse) is the narrowest street in the city of Brașov, Romania.It is believed to be one of the narrowest streets in Europe (L'Androuno, in France, Spreuerhofstraße, in Germany, and Parliament Street, in England, are narrower).
The Kabul–Kandahar Highway is said to have been designed and asphalted in the 1960s by Afghan and American engineers under contracts with the United States International Cooperation Administration. [3] [4] [5] This was a time when the Soviet Union and the United States were spreading their influence in Afghanistan.
The Kabul–Kandahar Highway (NH0101) is a 483-kilometer (300 mi) section of National Highway 01 linking two of Afghanistan's largest cities, Kabul and Kandahar. [1] This highway is a key portion of the Ring Road. Approximately 35 percent of Afghanistan's population lives within 50 km (31 mi) of the Kabul to Kandahar portion of the Ring Road.
A side road is a minor highway typically leading off a main road. [1] A side road may be so minor as to be uncategorized with a road number. In an urban area, a side road may be a narrow street leading off a more major street, especially in a residential area.