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Castle Roads, in Bermuda. An example of the maritime application of the word roads.
A road is a linear way for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, 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...) Selected article
The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: Via Appia) was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, Apulia, in southeast Italy. Its importance is indicated by its common name, recorded by Statius:
The road is named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during the Samnite Wars. General images -The following are images from various road-related articles on Wikipedia.
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... that the King road drag, a road grader widely used across North America for grading dirt roads in the early 20th century, was invented by D. Ward King? WikiProjects
Selected panoramaThe Rio–Niterói Bridge, officially part of the federal BR-101 Brazil highway system, and a landmark of Rio de Janeiro.
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