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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. 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 ...

  4. Interstate 90 - Wikipedia

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    I-90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States, spanning 3,099.7 miles (4,988.5 km) across the northern portion of the coterminous part of the country. [3] The transcontinental freeway passes through 13 states in the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, Great Plains, Midwest, and the Northeast regions of the United States.

  5. Brush fire at 605 and 105 freeways in Norwalk causes major ...

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    Firefighters were first called at 6:05 p.m. to the 105 and Hoxie Avenue for a report of a fire on the side of the freeway, said Imy Velderrain of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

  6. 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 ...

  7. California State Route 237 - Wikipedia

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    Before Route 237 was upgraded to freeway status in 1994–1995, it was a four-lane expressway with at-grade intersections, known as Alviso-Milpitas Road or Milpitas-Alviso Road depending on different maps showing the description. The Route 237 corridor has long been sought as a location for a freeway connector between Interstates 680 and 880.

  8. 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.

  9. Interchange (road) - Wikipedia

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    Interchanges are almost always used when at least one road is a controlled-access highway (freeway) or a limited-access highway (expressway), though they are sometimes used at junctions between surface streets. An aerial view of the Lakalaiva interchange in the Tampere Ring Road between the Highway 3 and Highway 9 near city of Tampere