road maintenance

A road is a thoroughfare from one place to another, primarily used for movement of traffic. Many 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. Roads 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, local roads, public roads and private roads.
The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths.

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  1. TimothyN

    Back in the USSR

    In the 80s, I used to drive around the Soviet Union a fair bit, in my capacity as an executive jet pilot. There were many things to dislike and despise about the place, the fact that nothing mechanical worked, that the food was awful and the people permanently drunk. But the thing that really...
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