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A road is a thoroughfare used primarily for movement of traffic. Most modern roads are paved.

The words "road" and "street" are commonly considered to be interchangeable, but the distinction is important in urban design. Roads differ from streets, whose primary use is local access. They also differ from stroads, which combine the features of streets and roads.

There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, highways, 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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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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Image 1German roadworks sign. Similar signs are used in other European countries. (from Roadworks)
Image 2Annual traffic deaths sign over I-95 in Georgia, US, indicating more than three deaths per day (from Road safety)
Image 3Gravel road in Namibia (from Road surface)
Image 4Map of Roman roads in 125 AD (from History of road transport)
Image 5A concrete road in Ewing, New Jersey (from Road surface)
Image 6Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City (from Road surface)
Image 7A patched road rut at a Portland Oregon bus stop. During the summer this part of the road will be hot and combined with a bus’s high ground pressure will compress and deform part of the road. Due to the lower elevation from the driveway, a large portion of the buses weight leans on one wheel causing damage to the road. Despite the repairs, you can see the patch is already damaged. This happens yearly. (from Road surface)
Image 8The Italian Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway" in the 1950s; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and the Autostrada A9), the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world (from History of road transport)
Image 9The Autostrada A20 (Italy) with large central median (from Road safety)
Image 10Sacrifices to the Modern Moloch, a 1923 cartoon published in St. Louis Star, criticizing the apparent acceptance by society of increasing automobile-related fatalities (from Road safety)
Image 11Road work in Oulu, Finland (from Roadworks)
Image 12Laying asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 13According to Eurostat, there is almost a linear proportion between the total number of passenger-km driven by car and road fatalities. (from Road safety)
Image 14Car 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 safety)
Image 15Jan Brueghel (I) - Travellers on the Way, second half of 16th Century (from History of road transport)
Image 16Red surfacing for a bicycle lane in the Netherlands (from Road surface)
Image 17Polymer cement overlaying to change asphalt pavement to brick texture and color to create decorative crosswalk (from Road surface)
Image 18Pavement ends and turns into gravel surface road. (from Road surface)
Image 19Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional highway 375 in Israel (from Road surface)
Image 20According 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 safety)
Image 21Closeup of asphalt on a driveway (from Road surface)
Image 22Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain (from History of road transport)
Image 23Red Asphalt Cleaning with waterblasting trucks by Smets Technology in the City of Vienna (from Road surface)
Image 24Different layers of road including asphalt layer. The total thickness of a pavement can be measured using granular base equivalency. (from Road surface)
Image 25The 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 26Brick paving machine (from Road surface)
Image 27Utrecht has specially painted bicycle-only lanes. (from Road safety)
Image 28Cracked asphalt surface (from Road surface)
Image 29Safe from traffic for cycling along a fully segregated Fietspad, properly designed cycling infrastructure in Amsterdam (from Road safety)
Image 30An example of composite pavement: hot-mix asphalt overlaid onto Portland cement concrete pavement (from Road surface)
Image 31Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from History of road transport)
Image 32John 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 33A road being resurfaced using a road roller (from Road surface)
Image 34Vehicles experiencing a breakdown or an emergency can stop in the emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. (from Road safety)
Image 35Speed limits in different areas; here unusually with only a "recommended" limit (Richtgeschwindigkeit) of 130 km/h on the Autobahn in Germany (from Road safety)
Image 36Concrete roadway in San Jose, California (from Road surface)
Image 37The Dutch Reach - Use far hand on handle when opening to avoid dooring cyclists or injuries to exiting drivers and passengers. (from Road safety)
Image 38* An orange diamond sign for upcoming roadworks. The worded legend shown here is banned by the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, but is allowed in the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. (from Roadworks)
Image 39The 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 40Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China. (from Roadworks)
Image 41Concrete pavers (from Road surface)
Image 42Guard rail on road in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) (from Road safety)
Image 43Deteriorating asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 44Replacing the old road with concrete blocks in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China (from Road surface)

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The Bispelokket ("Bishop's lid") interchange in Bjørvika, Oslo, Norway. Highway 4 starts here (as Nylandsveien), while European route E18 (as Bispegata) goes under it. Quality image
Credit: Marcin Szala (Pudelek)

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...that British Columbia provincial highway 2 is a short road from Dawson Creek to the B.C./Alberta border?'

...that Manitoba Provincial Road 373 became famous after a band from Norway House won an award for an album named after the highway?

...that famous tenor Antonio Giuglini used to jaywalk through traffic on London's Brompton Road while flying his kite?

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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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Panorama between Sax and Frümsen in the municipality of Sennwald in the Rhine Valley^{[disambiguation needed]}, 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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