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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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Twin bridges carrying the Hume Highway over Greenhills Road north of Berrima, New South Wales.
The Hume Highway / Hume Freeway is one of Australia's most important and notable interstate highways which runs for 880 km inland between Sydney and Melbourne. It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury, Wodonga and Canberra.

The main alternative route is the Princes Highway which goes via the coast rather than inland.

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The following are images from various road-related articles on Wikipedia.

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A view of the north and south carriageways of Rodovia dos Imigrantes, one crossing over the other at (23°55′7.00″S 46°24′57.00″W / 23.9186111°S 46.4158333°W / -23.9186111; -46.4158333)
Credit: (OS2Warp)

Did you know

... that a dendrochronological study suggests the Corlea Trackway, a kilometre-long corduroy road in County Longford, Ireland, was built around 148 BC?
...that Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada's second largest saline lake?

...that Maes Titianus penetrated farther along the Silk Road than any other Westerner in Antiquity, reaching the Stone Tower of Tashkurgan in the Pamirs?

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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Panorama between Sax and Frümsen in the municipality of Sennwald in the Rhine Valley, looking from Kreuzberg (on the left), to the Appenzell Alps, Saxer Gap, the Stauberen, and Hoher Kasten on the right.
Credit: (Böhringer friedrich)

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  • Article request:
  • Expand: any of the 7,951 Highway stub articles
  • Improve: You may always improve the quality of road articles by adding more information and references to enhance the overall readers' experience. Improvements to GA and FA quality is much appreciated! Also, nominations for Selected article and Selected picture are always needed, as with Did you know and News. Add to the Portal
  • Articles to GA: Highways and any of those at B-Class articles which can be improved.
  • Articles to FA: Any of those which are at GA- or at A-Class and can be improved.
  • Peer review: highways peer review—a special peer review dedicated to highways.
  • Copyedit: Please copy edit to format any new articles and add talk page templates
  • Photo request: Just about all of them! Any pictures of Highways regions, road surface or infrastruture varieties or Highways would be useful. In particular we need Highways region maps that can be licensed for Wikipedia.
  • Collaboration: Operation stub-killer, Nominations for top level importance
  • Highways Improvement Drive:
  • Other: Comment on the templates, templates and route or junction boxes
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Subcategories

The following entries are categories relating to road transport:
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Road transport by continent
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Road transport-related lists
1930s in road transport
1990s in road transport
Bicycle sharing
Bus transport
Carsharing
Dry ports
Emergency road services
Road transport events
Fleet management
History of road transport
Road infrastructure
Road-rail intermodal transport
International road transport
Road traffic management
Road transport organizations
Parking
Parkways
People in road transport
Portages
Road haulage
Road transport of heads of state
Road-inaccessible communities
Road safety
Streets and roads
Traffic flow
Types of roads
Vehicle registration plates
Works about road transport
Road stubs

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