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  2. Controlled-access highway - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...

  3. Speed limits in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As of May 15, 2017, 41 states have maximum speed limits of 70 mph (113 km/h) or higher. 18 of those states have 75 miles per hour (121 km/h) speed limits or higher, while 7 states of that same portion have 80 mph (129 km/h) speed limits, with Texas even having an 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) speed limit on one of its toll roads.

  4. Speed limits in the United States by jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Most of the Alaska Highway between the Canadian border and Delta Junction; The Minnesota Drive Expressway features a 60-mile-per-hour (97 km/h) speed limit, as does the Richardson Highway between Fairbanks and North Pole. Since the mid-1990s, Alaska's major highways have gradually been upgraded from 55 mph to 60 or 65 mph.

  5. Limited-access road - Wikipedia

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    The Veterans Memorial Parkway in London, Ontario is a modern at-grade limited-access road with intersections. A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled-access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway ...

  6. Glossary of road transport terms - Wikipedia

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    See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...

  7. Road hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Bundesautobahn 9 near by Garching bei Muenchen, Germany. At the top of the hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed are controlled-access highways; their defining characteristic is the control of access to and from the road, meaning that the road cannot be directly accessed from properties or other roads, but only from specific connector roads.

  8. First there was Idaho 16, the rural highway that linked Idaho 44 , or State Street, to Emmett. Then, in 2014, came a big extension: a 2.5-mile four-lane freeway from State Street south to U.S. 20 ...

  9. Road signs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Two hour parking, electric vehicles only (times and days) ... XX feet between tracks and highway. W10-11b ... W19-3 Freeway ends. W19-4 Expressway ends. W19-5 All ...