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A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, whose primary function is to serve as public spaces, the main function of roads is transportation.

There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, thoroughfares, and local roads.

The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. (Full article...)

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Highway 401 west of the Don Valley Parkway/Highway 404 junction.

A freeway is a type of road designed for safer high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections. This is accomplished by preventing access to and from adjacent properties and eliminating all cross traffic through the use of grade separations and interchanges; railroad crossings are also removed. Such highways are usually divided with at least two lanes in each direction. Because traffic never crosses at-grade, there are generally no traffic lights or stop signs. Some countries have roads that function as freeways but use different names. These include autobahn, autovía, autoroute, autopista, autostrada, autosnelweg, motorway (in the UK and Ireland) and expressway (in India and Asia).

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Image 1Deteriorating asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 2Pavement ends and turns into gravel surface road (from Road surface)
Image 3Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional highway 375 in Israel (from Road surface)
Image 4A road work at the Torikatu street in Oulu, Finland. (from Roadworks)
Image 5Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China. (from Roadworks)
Image 6According to Eurostat and European Railway Agency, in European railway mode of transport, there is a fatality risk for passengers and occupants 28 times lower compared with car usage. Based on data by EU-27 member nations, 2008–2010. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 7Concrete pavers (from Road surface)
Image 8Sacrifices to the Modern Moloch, a 1922 cartoon published in The New York Times, criticizing the apparent acceptance by society of increasing automobile-related fatalities (from Road traffic safety)
Image 9Laying asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 10Red surfacing for a bicycle lane in the Netherlands (from Road surface)
Image 11Highway repairs near Manali, India (from Roadworks)
Image 12John Metcalf, also known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough. Drawn by J R Smith in The Life of John Metcalf published 1801. (from History of road transport)
Image 13Utrecht has specially painted bicycle-only lanes. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 14Polymer cement overlaying to change asphalt pavement to brick texture and color to create decorative crosswalk (from Road surface)
Image 15Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City (from Road surface)
Image 16According to Eurostat, there is almost a linear proportion between the total number of passenger-km driven by car and road fatalities. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 17Annual traffic deaths sign over I-95 in Georgia, US, indicating more than three deaths per day (from Road traffic safety)
Image 18Closeup of asphalt on a driveway (from Road surface)
Image 19The Great North Road near Highgate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land. (from History of road transport)
Image 20Vehicles experiencing a breakdown or an emergency can stop in the emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 21A concrete road in Ewing, New Jersey (from Road surface)
Image 22Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from History of road transport)
Image 23Guard rail on road in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) (from Road traffic safety)
Image 24Worker in a cloud of concrete dust (from Roadworks)
Image 25Jan Brueghel (I) - Travellers on the Way, second half of 16th Century (from History of road transport)
Image 26Gravel road in Namibia (from Road surface)
Image 27Road workers crushing rocks, in the mountains near Kullu (from Roadworks)
Image 28Pateros Traffic Enforcer And Roadworks Road Closed Construction in Pateros, Metro Manila, Philippines. (from Roadworks)
Image 29Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain (from History of road transport)
Image 30Map of Roman roads in 125CE (from History of road transport)
Image 31Car fatalities per pax-km vs. car usage per pax-day; in Europe. It seems, at least in these European countries, that car fatalities per person-km have no strong correlation with massification of car usage. The average car usage in these countries is around 30km per person-day with varying number of fatalities ratios. These differences might be related with different cultural approaches to traffic codes, or more safety measures implemented on such countries. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 32The Dutch Reach - Use far hand on handle when opening to avoid dooring cyclists or injuries to exiting drivers and passengers. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 33The Autostrada A20 (Italy) with large central median (from Road traffic safety)
Image 34A road being resurfaced using a road roller (from Road surface)
Image 35Safe from traffic for cycling along a fully segregated Fietspad, properly designed cycling infrastructure in Amsterdam (from Road traffic safety)
Image 36Speed limits in different areas, unusually with only a "recommended" limit (130 km/h) for the Autobahn (from Road traffic safety)
Image 37The schedule of maximum tolls allowed on the Woodstock to Rollright Turnpike Trust on the Great Road to Worcester in 1751 (from History of road transport)
Image 38Replacing the old road with concrete blocks in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China (from Road surface)
Image 39Different layers of road including asphalt layer. The total thickness of a pavement can be measured using granular base equivalency (from Road surface)
Image 40An orange diamond sign for upcoming roadworks. The worded legend shown here is banned by the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, but is allowed in the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. (from Roadworks)
Image 41Historical map of 1926 of the Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway"; now parts of the A8 and A9 motorways) opened on 21 September 1924, Italy, the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world. (from History of road transport)
Image 42An example of composite pavement: hot-mix asphalt overlaid onto Portland cement concrete pavement (from Road surface)
Image 43Concrete roadway in San Jose, California (from Road surface)
Image 44German roadworks sign. In other European countries, the signs are similar. (from Roadworks)

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Motorway M1 in Yorkshire south of Leeds. Quality image
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...that the site of the early Viking hill fort of Alaborg, Russia, was turned into a quarry for construction of a highway during the years of Stalinism?

... that a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada?

...that a table bridge is a moveable bridge (pictured) that looks like an ordinary road when closed but appears monstrous when open, while a similarly appearing submersible bridge vanishes when open? (Pont levant Notre Dame)

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WikiProjects

WikiProject Highways—principal WikiProject
- U.S. Roads—United States state highways and county roads
- U.S. Streets—United States city streets
- Australian Roads—Australian highways, principal roads, and main city streets
- Canada Roads—Canada provincial highways
- Canada Streets—Canada city streets
- WikiProject UK Roads—roads in the United Kingdom
  - London transport—roads, etc.
- Paris Streets
- China Transportation—includes expressways, ring roads, Roads, national highways, etc
- Germany transportation
- Indian Roads
- Nepal transportation
- Pakistani Roads
- Scotland transport—includes road and bus transport in Scotland

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A panorama of Mikumi National Park in Tanzania.
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