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A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, whose primary function is to serve as public spaces, 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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The A4232, which is known either as the Peripheral Distributor Road (PDR) (Welsh: Ffordd Ddosbarthu Ymylol) or the Cardiff Link Road (Welsh: Ffordd Gyswllt Caerdydd), is a distributor road in Cardiff, the capital of Wales.

The first section of the PDR to be completed was the Southern Way Link Road between Newport Road (A4161 road) and the Eastern Avenue (A48 road) in 1978.rem When fully completed, the road will form part of the Cardiff ring-road system. The PDR runs west, south and east of Cardiff, with the M4 between junction 30 and junction 33 completing the northern section. The PDR is dual carriageway for its entire length except for the East Moors Viaduct, which is a single carriageway.

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Image 1According 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 traffic safety)
Image 2A road work at the Torikatu street in Oulu, Finland. (from Roadworks)
Image 3Concrete roadway in San Jose, California (from Road surface)
Image 4Utrecht has specially painted bicycle-only lanes. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 5Red surfacing for a bicycle lane in the Netherlands (from Road surface)
Image 6Deteriorating asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 7Car 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 traffic safety)
Image 8Speed limits in different areas, unusually with only a "recommended" limit (130 km/h) for the Autobahn (from Road traffic safety)
Image 9The 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 10Polymer cement overlaying to change asphalt pavement to brick texture and color to create decorative crosswalk (from Road surface)
Image 11An 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 12Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China. (from Roadworks)
Image 13Pavement ends and turns into gravel surface road (from Road surface)
Image 14Highway repairs near Manali, India (from Roadworks)
Image 15Pateros Traffic Enforcer And Roadworks Road Closed Construction in Pateros, Metro Manila, Philippines. (from Roadworks)
Image 16Closeup of asphalt on a driveway (from Road surface)
Image 17Replacing the old road with concrete blocks in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China (from Road surface)
Image 18Annual traffic deaths sign over I-95 in Georgia, US, indicating more than three deaths per day (from Road traffic safety)
Image 19Safe from traffic for cycling along a fully segregated Fietspad, properly designed cycling infrastructure in Amsterdam (from Road traffic safety)
Image 20Laying asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 21Different layers of road including asphalt layer. The total thickness of a pavement can be measured using granular base equivalency (from Road surface)
Image 22An example of composite pavement: hot-mix asphalt overlaid onto Portland cement concrete pavement (from Road surface)
Image 23Jan Brueghel (I) - Travellers on the Way, second half of 16th Century (from History of road transport)
Image 24The Italian Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway"; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and the Autostrada A9), the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world, in 1925, the year following its inauguration. (from History of road transport)
Image 25John 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 26The Dutch Reach - Use far hand on handle when opening to avoid dooring cyclists or injuries to exiting drivers and passengers. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 27Road workers crushing rocks, in the mountains near Kullu (from Roadworks)
Image 28Sacrifices to the Modern Moloch, a 1922 cartoon published in The New York Times, criticizing the apparent acceptance by society of increasing automobile-related fatalities (from Road traffic safety)
Image 29German roadworks sign. In other European countries, the signs are similar. (from Roadworks)
Image 30Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City (from Road surface)
Image 31Map of Roman roads in 125CE (from History of road transport)
Image 32Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain (from History of road transport)
Image 33According to Eurostat, there is almost a linear proportion between the total number of passenger-km driven by car and road fatalities. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 34A road being resurfaced using a road roller (from Road surface)
Image 35The 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 36Gravel road in Namibia (from Road surface)
Image 37Worker in a cloud of concrete dust (from Roadworks)
Image 38Guard rail on road in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) (from Road traffic safety)
Image 39Brick paving machine (from Road surface)
Image 40A concrete road in Ewing, New Jersey (from Road surface)
Image 41Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional highway 375 in Israel (from Road surface)
Image 42Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from History of road transport)
Image 43Vehicles experiencing a breakdown or an emergency can stop in the emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 44The Autostrada A20 (Italy) with large central median (from Road traffic safety)
Image 45Concrete pavers (from Road surface)

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Did you know

...that Gustavus Blin Wright, a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada, built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?

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

...that there is more variation in the design of direction signs (example pictured) internationally than in any other class of road sign?

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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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Cathcart, landscape around the town with Windvogelberg, view to north (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
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