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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).
[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 ...
State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California.At 656 miles (1,056 km), it is the longest state route in California, and the second-longest in the US after Montana Highway 200.
Bourbon Street is a long, straight and narrow street lined with bars. At night when the bars are crowded, police usually bar vehicle access, allowing patrons to spill out onto the street.
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 ...
Chilling video footage captures the moment bystanders run for their lives during a brazen shooting at a Bronx bodega Monday that wounded six -- including a mom who was used as a human shield and ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.