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expressway
[ ik-spres-wey ]
noun
- a highway especially planned for high-speed traffic, usually having few if any intersections, limited points of access or exit, and a divider between lanes for traffic moving in opposite directions.
expressway
/ ɪˈɛˌɱɪ /
noun
- a motorway
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National and state highways together make up about 5% of the total network, while other roads - including gleaming access-controlled expressways - account for the rest.
He’s also building India's longest expressway and redeveloping India’s largest slum.
A six-lane expressway between the two cities quickly filled with cyclists.
The expressway, built in the 1950s and ’60s to move cars faster between downtown Buffalo and its suburbs, has long depressed property values and stifled economic development in this low-income and predominantly Black community.
On Saturday, the Meizhou city government in Guangdong said in a statement that authorities would conduct citywide checks on expressways, railways and roads in mountainous areas.
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