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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...)

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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:

Appia teritur regina longarum viarum

"the Appian way is commonly said to be the queen of the long roads"

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.

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Image 1Deteriorating asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 2Pavement ends and turns into gravel surface road (from Road surface)
Image 3Road workers crushing rocks, in the mountains near Kullu (from Roadworks)
Image 4Highway repairs near Manali, India (from Roadworks)
Image 5German roadworks sign. In other European countries, the signs are similar. (from Roadworks)
Image 6Sacrifices 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 7A typical MUTCD sign (from Roadworks)
Image 8Guard rail on road in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) (from Road traffic safety)
Image 9The 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 10Laying asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 11The 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 12Closeup of asphalt on a driveway (from Road surface)
Image 13Concrete roadway in San Jose, California (from Road surface)
Image 14Safe from traffic for cycling along a fully segregated Fietspad, properly designed cycling infrastructure in Amsterdam. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 15Red surfacing for the bicycle lane in the Netherlands (from Road surface)
Image 16Replacing the old road with concrete blocks in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China (from Road surface)
Image 17The 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 18Polymer cement overlaying to change asphalt pavement to brick texture and color to create decorative crosswalk (from Road surface)
Image 19Jan Brueghel (I) - Travellers on the Way, second half of 16th Century (from History of road transport)
Image 20Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain (from History of road transport)
Image 21A road work at the Torikatu street in Oulu, Finland. (from Roadworks)
Image 22According 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 23Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from History of road transport)
Image 24Pateros Traffic Enforcer And Roadworks Road Closed Construction in Pateros, Metro Manila, Philippines. (from Roadworks)
Image 25Annual traffic deaths sign over I-95 in Georgia, US, indicating more than three deaths per day (from Road traffic safety)
Image 26Map of Roman roads in 125CE (from History of road transport)
Image 27According 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 28Speed limits in different areas, unusually with only a "recommended" limit (130 km/h) for the Autobahn (from Road traffic safety)
Image 29Concrete pavers (from Road surface)
Image 30An example of composite pavement: hot-mix asphalt overlaid onto Portland cement concrete pavement (from Road surface)
Image 31Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional hwy 375 in Israel (from Road surface)
Image 32A road being resurfaced using a road roller (from Road surface)
Image 33Gravel road in Namibia (from Road surface)
Image 34Different layers of road including asphalt layer. The total thickness of a pavement can be measured using granular base equivalency (from Road surface)
Image 35A concrete road in Ewing, New Jersey. (from Road surface)
Image 36Utrecht has specially painted bicycle-only lanes. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 37John 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 38Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China. (from Roadworks)
Image 39Vehicles 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 40Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City (from Road surface)
Image 41Car 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)

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Interstate 5 curving through Downtown Seattle's skyline
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Did you know

... that Pinkie Road, a part of the Global Transportation Hub intermodal port authority facility, will link the Trans Canada Highway 1 and Highway 11 as a part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative?

... that labourers paving Saskatchewan Highway 641 in 1942 earned 35 cents an hour and a labourer with a tractor-drawn drag earned 50 cents an hour?

... 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?

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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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The Rio–Niterói Bridge, officially part of the federal BR-101 Brazil highway system, and a landmark of Rio de Janeiro.
Credit: (Klaus with K)

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International	International roads and highways Road networks Expressways Road–rail tunnels Road–rail bridges Terminology Road accidents Fatalities Death rate
Transportation planning	Driving Footpaths Ancient roads and tracks Trails Hitchhiking Parking Parking facilities Road infrastructure Road bridges Cycleways Level crossings Orbital/ring roads Pedestrian crossings Road construction Streetworks Rail trails Roadology Future roads Urban planners Urban planning
Management	Road authorities Expressway authorities Road operators Private road operators Road authorities Road traffic safety Road traffic management Traffic law Traffic signs

Types of road

High-speed

Access via interchanges	Autobahn Autocesta Autopista Autopista (Chile) Autopista (Mexico) Autopista (Puerto Rico) Autostrada Autostrasse Auto-estrada Freeway Motorway Semi-highway HQDC
Other access	Arterial road Collector/distributor road Distributor road Dual carriageway/divided highway Express-collector setup Expressway Farm-to-market road Highway Link road Parkway Super two Two-lane expressway 2+1 road 2+2 road

Low-speed

Standard	Boulevard Business route Frontage road Regional road Road Single carriageway Street
Low traffic	Alley Backroad Dead end Driveway Lane Primitive road Range road

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Surfaces

List of road types by features

Road junctions

Interchanges (grade-separated)	Cloverleaf Diamond Directional T Diverging diamond Parclo Trumpet SPUI Stack Three-level diamond Raindrop Roundabout interchange
Intersections (at-grade)	Box junction Continuous flow Hook turn Jughandle Michigan left Quadrant roadway Roundabout Superstreet Three-way junction Traffic circle Bowtie

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