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Jalan Ampang at night, with the Petronas Twin Towers visible in the background in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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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A1 Motorway
The A1 motorway (Croatian: Autocesta A1) is the longest motorway in Croatia spanning 454.5 kilometers (282.4 mi). As it connects Zagreb, the nation's capital, to Split, the second largest city in the country and the largest city in Dalmatia, the motorway represents a major northsouth transportation corridor in Croatia and a significant part of the AdriaticIonian motorway. Apart from Zagreb and Split, the A1 motorway runs near a number of major Croatian cities, provides either access to several national parks or nature parks and world heritage sites and numerous resorts, especially along the Adriatic Coast. The motorway is currently being extended south of Split to the port of Ploče and the city of Dubrovnik. National significance of the motorway is reflected through its positive economic impact on the cities and towns it connects as well as its importance to tourism in Croatia, however its genuine importance as a transit route shall be achieved upon completion of the AdriaticIonian motorway along the sections currently spanned just by the Adriatic Highway and two-lane roads in Slovenia and Albania connecting to the route.

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Interchange in Dubai, United Arab Emirates where Al Quta'eyat Road and Zabeel Road meet adjacent to Zabeel Park (on the left in the picture) next to the neighborhoods of Zabeel (at the bottom), Karama (in the upper left), and Oud Metha (in the upper right).
Credit: Imre Solt

Did you know

...that the site of the early Viking hill fort of Alaborg, Russia, was turned into a quarry for construction of a highway during the years of Stalinism?
... that a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada?

...that road maintenance depots have been used as fronts to disguise entrances to military installations?

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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  • 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
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  • Other: Comment on the templates, templates and route or junction boxes
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Subcategories

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History of road transport
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Parking
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Road-inaccessible communities
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Types of roads
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Works about road transport
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