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A road is an identifiable route, way or path between places.[1] Roads are typically smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel;[2] though 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 being 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.[3] Economics and society depend heavily on efficient roads. In the European Union (EU) 44% of all goods are moved by trucks over roads and 85% of all persons are transported by cars, buses or coaches on roads.[4]
The United States has the largest network of roadways of any country with 6,430,366 km (2005). India has the second largest road system in the world with 3,383,344 km (2002). People's Republic of China is third with 1,870,661 km of roadway (2004).[5] When looking only at expressways the National Trunk Highway System (NTHS) in People's Republic of China has a total length of 45,000 km at the end of 2006, second only to the United States with 90,000 km in 2005.[6][7]
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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.[8]
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Wikinews Roads portal- March 31: British haulage managing director Edward Stobart dies at age 56
- March 30: All change for Nottingham, England trams as new operator announced
- March 28: Sheffield tram-train project back on the rails
- March 27: Nottingham Express Transit extensions get Government approval
- March 26: Mayor of London Boris Johnson announces bidders for additional Tramlink vehicles
- March 26: Part of California highway near Big Sur falls into the sea
- 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 11 } as a part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative (APGCI).[9]
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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.[10]
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Ledo & Burma Roads. Assam, Burma, China. Credit: Use full link (Example)
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| ...that the Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure employs 1,476 employees diversified amongst 105 communities, maintaining 198,239 kilometers (123,180 mi) of roads and highways?" |
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... that from 1945 until 1978, cars in Okinawa Prefecture drove on the right side of the road until a switch to left-hand drive as part of the 730 Conversion Plan, to match the rest of Japan?
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- WikiProject Canada Roads - Canada roads
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- China Transportation - includes Expressways,Ring Roads, Roads, China National Highways etc
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- Scotland transport - includes Road transport in Scotland, Bus transport in Scotland, Road accident deaths in Scotland, Roads in Scotland etc
- WikiProject U.S. Roads - United States roads; has child state projects linked from there
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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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