Portal:Roads
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A road is an identifiable route, way or path between places. Roads are typically smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel; however, they need not be, and historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or maintenance.
The term was also commonly used to refer to roadsteads, waterways that lent themselves to use by shipping. Notable examples include Hampton Roads in Virginia, and Castle Roads in Bermuda (also formerly in Virginia).
In urban areas, roads may diverge through a city or village and be named as streets, serving a dual function as urban space easement and route. Economics and society depend heavily on efficient roads. In the European Union, 44% of all goods are moved by trucks over roads and 85% of all persons are transported by cars, buses, or coaches on roads.
The United States has the largest network of roadways of any country with 6,430,366 km in 2005. India has the second largest road system in the world with 3,383,344 km in 2002. People's Republic of China is third with 1,870,661 km of roadway in 2004. When looking only at expressways, the National Trunk Highway System (NTHS) in People's Republic of China had a total length of 45,000 km at the end of 2006, second only to the United States with 90,000 km in 2005.
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There have been routes and trackways in Ireland connecting settlements and facilitating trade since ancient times and the country now has an extensive network of public roads connecting all parts of the country.The first routes in Ireland were prehistoric trackways, some of which were later developed into roads suited for wheeled vehicles. Many of Ireland's minor roads "may well have had their origin in pre-existing paths and trackways aligned in direct response to the physical environment". Traces of these "evolved roads" which developed over very long periods, frequently from tracks of the prehistoric period, are still evident. Such roads usually followed the tops of ridges and crossed rivers and streams at fording points.
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- January 29 - Pinkie Road is a proposed 4 lane twinned highway connector road linking two National Highway System routes (Saskatchewan Highway 1 (the Trans Canada Highway) and Highway 11) as a part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative (APGCI).[1]
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- July 28 - Tim McLean was stabbed and beheaded while riding a Greyhound Canada bus about 18 miles (29 km) west of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba traveling the Trans Canada Highway.[2]
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Istarska Street, Pula, in front of the amphiteather Quality image
Credit: (Orlovic)
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... that in a toll dispute between residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras and the Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire, a barrier blocking a shunpike was repeatedly torn down and rebuilt?
... that the 2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water?
- WikiProject Highways—principal WikiProject
- U.S. Roads—United States state highways and county roads
- U.S. Streets—United States city streets
- Canada Roads—Canada provincial highways
- Canada Streets—Canada city streets
- WikiProject UK Roads—roads in the United Kingdom
- London transport—roads and etc
- Paris Streets
- China Transportation—includes expressways, ring roads, Roads, national highways, etc
- Germany transportation
- Indian Roads
- Nepal transportation
- Scotland transport—includes road and bus transport in Scotland
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San Bartolomé de Tirajana
Credit: (Eckhard Jakob)
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Template:/box-header The following entries are categories relating to road transport:
- What are portals?
- List of portals
- Featured portals
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- ↑ Police don't know what prompted vicious bus attack, CTV.ca, July 31, 2008. Accessed August 6, 2008.
