How To Use Carriageway In A Sentence

Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
It is believed the car may have aquaplaned on the northbound carriageway before landing on its roof. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
I still cannot get my head round the idea that golf's holy of holies is situated just off a busy dual carriageway.
There is a lay-by on each carriageway, but 70 mph roads have those as well without anyone complaining that they represent a safety threat.
So began a painstaking operation to replace bolts and an expansion joint on the carriageway taking traffic out of the city, which was completed in 1969.

The first carries the dual carriageway A4041 with a street light balanced precariously above the centre of the canal.
Suddenly the coach crossed the central reservation and collided with a public light bus travelling in the inner lane of the eastbound carriageway.
He crashed into a car and was seen wielding a sword as he headed down the dual carriageway on foot.
Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
The car was travelling on the eastbound carriageway, towards the Greenbridge roundabout when it left the road.
When I wouldn't budge, the eejit in the high-performance car, decided to drive along the grass verge to get past me, such was his rush to get onto the carriageway.
At a later stage the southbound carriageway of the A361 will be closed.
‘The bus driver braked but failed to avoid a pedestrian who was in the inside lane of the northbound carriageway,’ she said.
Examples include finding yourself wandering by a dual carriageway at 5am, or finding yourself snogging someone with no idea how you got onto intimate terms with them.
The cars will use specially selected dual carriageway commuting routes that are not used by bikes or pedestrians. The Sun
It happened when the lorry hit a bridge parapet on the north bound carriageway, near Charnock Richard services.
The use of carriageways constructed of two layers of stone broken to different dimensions antedates the construction of Telford's government roads from London to Holyhead and in the environs of Glasgow and Lanarkshire.
Festival goers have been given designated routes to the event - vehicle access is from the A64 York-bound carriageway only.
I would like to see a dual carriageway, possibly with a roundabout and an underpass for pedestrians.
On the other side is a new link road taking motorists to a new underpass under the dual carriageway.
In one part of the country the roads are metalled and well-signposted, but as soon as your car enters another borough, the dual carriageway abruptly becomes a pot-holed dirt-track.
Lane three of the eastbound carriageway was closed while police towed away the white van.
Another hour had taken him to a five-mile strip of dual carriageway cut through downland.
There have been a number of accidents on the roadway and she fears that further crashes are almost inevitable, given the narrow nature of the carriageway and the fact that there appears to be some problem with the camber of the road.
Traffic will be reduced to single lane working in a contraflow system on the westbound carriageway and Highways Agency officials are warning drivers to expect delays.
Police had to close two lanes of the westbound carriageway, a mile short of Junction 17 so that debris from the accident could be cleared.
Police placed cones across the entrance to the village from the dual carriageway last Friday night, after jams caused by a contraflow at Copmanthorpe led to severe congestion in the village.
The National Roads Authority said the aim of the scheme is to provide a dual carriageway that bypasses Waterford City whilst also catering for the needs of the city.
Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
Peter Evely, head of highways regulation at City of York Council, said it was adequate, particularly as there was also a cycle and pedestrian path, plus a metre of hardstanding, alongside the carriageway.
Follow coastal route and leave dual carriageway at Bangor exit.
Ministers are unlikely to introduce 80mph on stretches of the motorway network that are only dual carriageway. Times, Sunday Times
The situation will be reversed next year while the northbound carriageway is resurfaced.
The census checkpoint on a busy dual carriageway saw one lane in each direction closed. The Sun
The outside lane of the northbound carriageway was closed for half an hour while recovery teams cleared away the debris.
Since roadworks began on a stretch of the Naas carriageway motorists have fumed at being forced to keep to a 40 mph legal limit.
The truck mounted the central median during the incident, and could quite likely have ended up on the southbound carriageway with potentially catastrophic consequences.
We are going to set this right first by making a uniform carriageway of four lanes, fit pre-cast drains and asphalt the roads.
Some cops will give a fixed penalty for undertaking on a dual carriageway.
The road in this study is about 100 km long, with dual 2-lane carriageways apart from the first 5 km that are 3-lane carriageways.
The increased limit will apply on autostrada with three lanes in each direction and the latest barriers to prevent vehicles from leaving each carriageway.
He then hit the central reservation and flipped over it, rolling into a Mercedes van on the opposite carriageway, which was knocked off the road.
The regulations apply where the road is new or is subject to major alterations; for example, where a new carriageway is added to an existing road. Times, Sunday Times
The carriageway profiles of the majority of Aberdeenshire turnpikes had a fall from the centre of the carriageway to the sides.
Four hundred police were drafted in and last night the traffic appeared to be moving as a relief lane was opened on the opposite carriageway. Times, Sunday Times
He said he saw a car parked with its passenger door open on the other side of the University Road single carriageway. The Sun
The building of the Bow flyover removed all traces of the old bridge, and the River Lea is now barely visible beside the dual carriageway beneath.
All carriageways of the road, which is near the busy intersection with the M6, were reopened by 2.30 pm yesterday.
Until then, the contraflow system on the westbound carriageway allowing a single lane of traffic in each direction will continue.
TWO men fed up with roadworks reopened a dual carriageway - by removing 50 cones. The Sun
Hurtling towards him in the swirling fog was a huge lorry powerless to stop on the icy carriageway.
The smash happened at 11 am on Monday on the eastbound carriageway about half a mile from Junction 15.
Take coastal route as far as Caernarfon, leave dual carriageway at Bangor exit, follow route for Holyhead.
An orderly life on either side of the dual carriageway, the illusion of an orderly life.
A spokeswoman for Clacton police said the Clacton-bound lorry had got stuck in the central reservation of the road blocking both carriageways.
We were very lucky we weren't called to an accident on the opposite carriageway. The Sun
It turned out to be the central reservation of a dual carriageway. The Sun
The problems this autumn have been caused largely by the need to reduce traffic down to one lane in each direction on a contraflow on the westbound carriageway.
The mandatory cycle lane would stretch along Belmont Rise and would be situated directly on the carriageway, rather than on the path at the side of the busy road.
Cops said he was struck after fleeing a suspected stolen vehicle on the opposite carriageway. The Sun
Drivers on a busy dual carriageway yesterday had to swerve around a bath. The Sun
Out on the motorway it gave ample warning of a police car approaching on the opposite carriageway. Times, Sunday Times
AN auctioneer was stunned when a grass verge at the edge of a busy dual carriageway fetched 32,000. The Sun
The contraflow will be switched to the westbound carriageway in late January as resurfacing starts on eastbound lanes.
Raised medians at the centre of the carriageway could also serve as pedestrian refuges.
I always follow the map and, having kicked myself for failing to direct us off onto smaller roads at a previous junction, noted a thin white line of track that bypassed what I assumed was the problem – the road narrowing from a dual to a single carriageway quite three miles up ahead. 2009 July « Tales from the Reading Room
A minority of these roads, although listed with a carriageway of constant thickness, may have had a similar surface profile, provided the roadbed on which they were formed had a central camber.
The outside lane of the northbound carriageway was temporarily closed while the man was freed from the vehicle, causing a two mile tailback.
Road sweepers were drafted in to clear the carriageway while damaged vehicles were recovered.
A single-lane carriageway will be carried over the River Nadder and its flood plain on a viaduct.
The westbound carriageway of the motorway is closed.
Two lanes of the eastbound carriageway also had to be closed because of debris and to allow access for the emergency services.
The appellant was walking towards her on the side of the roadway but near the edge of the bitumen carriageway.
This was a three-mile dual carriageway designed to make traffic congestion a thing of the past.
The three-vehicle smash, on the southbound carriageway between the A127 turn-off and junction 30 at Lakeside, claimed the life of a driver from Grays.
Debris from the crash was scattered over the carriageway, and the road between the two roundabouts was closed.
Traffic is now being carried on six narrow lanes on the southbound carriageway.
Many of the deaths have resulted from conflicts with local traffic at crossroads and junctions along the single carriageway sections.
The kerbside on the south bound section of the carriageway between Linden Road and Union Street is littered with old cars.
In a split second, the vehicle moved to the side of the road before hitting the kerb and going off the carriageway, smashing through a fence and down an embankment.
The southbound carriageways of both roads remained unaffected.
No part of the single carriageway network was considered low risk. Times, Sunday Times
No one needs to spend 600 million on a short stretch of dual carriageway. Times, Sunday Times
Whilst considering the other end of the road I have noticed that at the roundabout there you find broken lines crossing the carriageway at an oblique angle.
On Sunday the cones will be changed and work will start on the other side of the eastbound carriageway.
Traffic is slow on the westbound carriageway of the M4.
Traffic is slow on the westbound carriageway of the M4.
The ‘pinch points’ have been identified at major motorway junctions, congested dual carriageway roundabouts and crossroads.
A senior road policing officer has rubbished reports that a dual carriageway near Chelmsford is being used as an unofficial race track.
The new road joins the old carriageway at Mount Falcon and continues on the former route to Foxford.
So cyclists find themselves on a new off-road facility that suddenly ends and forces them onto a dangerous single carriageway trunk road. Times, Sunday Times
We also live on the fourth floor of a block of flats overlooking Mile End Road, a duel carriageway.
Until then, the contraflow system on the westbound carriageway allowing a single lane of traffic in each direction will continue.
A Vauxhall Corsa van, travelling on the anti-clockwise carriageway, lost control, possibly when a tyre blew, and the unladen HGV swerved to avoid a collision, clipping another lorry.
Two lanes of the eastbound carriageway were reopened at about 9am but one lane remained shut as workers continued to remove vehicles from the scene.
Traffic lights operate at the junction with the main road, a busy dual carriageway.
Traffic tailed back fourteen miles after police were forced to close the inside lane of the northbound carriageway.
Cheshire County Council may build a dual carriageway passing within an estimated 200 yards of the property.
Our bus took us down a dual carriageway, over a hill and then the road stopped. For Love or Money
They were hit with such force that they were hurled on to the opposite carriageway. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond Mt. Hagen, however, the road is unsealed and single carriageway as far as Tari.
The crash happened at 12.28 pm, close to the slip road of the junction on the southbound carriageway.
The census checkpoint on a busy dual carriageway saw one lane in each direction closed. The Sun
The agency said that at some point cyclists had to leave the new cycle path to join the carriageway.
You will also notice that motorway exits can be on either side of a carriageway.
He welcomed another measure now set to be adopted by the agency, under which the westbound carriageway will be split into two separate lanes.
Terwin said yesterday the cars would be used for rapid response to emergencies, high-speed pursuit and patrolling dual carriageways and freeways.
Thames Water is resurfacing the road after the burst pipe buckled a 100 ft stretch of the carriageway about six inches deep.
The bumps in Leeds Road are irregularly placed, not symmetrical across the carriageway, and in one place it is possible to drive between two bumps.
Suitcases, once bound for holidays abroad in Mexico and the USA, were left strewn across all four lanes of the carriageway.
The increase in vehicles and the reduced carriageway made it difficult for them to move along the city roads.
If a way is actually created in accordance with the terms of an award which makes it clear that the public are permitted to pass and repass with carts and carriages without any restriction, a public carriageway will have come into existence.
The westbound carriageway was reopened shortly after 1pm and the eastbound after 1.30 pm.
The five-week scheme will also mean the closure of lay-bys on both sides of the dual-carriageway road at this point.
The road carriageway is anticipated to be complete and operational by end of April this year.
By-passing Bangor, leave dual carriageway at exit for Caernarfon.
Long traffic queues are already commonplace on both the southbound carriageway in Fife during the morning rush period and at South Queensferry in the evenings.
The crash happened at 12.28 pm, close to the slip road of the junction on the southbound carriageway.
The lorry, carrying gallons of orange juice, broke down just after 11 am yesterday, shedding its entire load on to the carriageway and triggering a nightmare tailback of traffic.
Gardaí believe it reached speeds of over 120 mph at times along the Stillorgan Dual Carriageway before ramming into the patrol car.
Mr Hobson is right, in my judgment, to concede that the Commissioners did not have the power to set Barton Road as a public carriageway.
DRIVERS on a busy dual carriageway yesterday had to swerve around a bath. The Sun
Fewer than 1 per cent of fatal accidents happen on dual carriageways and motorways, yet many of these roads are now plagued with speed cameras.
While a caller was reporting the first incident, a second crash involving four cars happened on the northbound carriageway.
We in Norfolk still have no continuous dual carriageway north, south or west. Times, Sunday Times
Last Saturday on the dual carriageway I was overtaken by a speeding car all lights ablaze.
On Tuesday morning when I passed the spot on the other side of the carriageway I saw an earth mover and a gang at work to restore the caved in road and fill up the potholes.
The primary school attended by my grandchild is adjacent to a busy dual carriageway which could soon be widened. Times, Sunday Times
It most certainly is not an additional feeder lane onto the main carriageway.
A 30 mph speed limit has been imposed and traffic diverted onto the northbound carriageway while the southbound carriageway is resurfaced.
These narrow paths should be carved from the space currently devoted to vehicle carriageways.
Lanes two and three of the westbound carriageway were closed to allow recovery of the vehicles.
The accident, which happened just before 6.20 pm, caused the westbound carriageway of the A64 to be shut for six hours.
The census checkpoint on a busy dual carriageway saw one lane in each direction closed. The Sun
He died when the car he was travelling in crashed into a stationary yellow low-loader parked in a lay-by on the westbound carriageway of the stretch.
The works caused serious congestion on the westbound carriageway last night.
The expressway is a laughing stock both here and interstate and Labor and the Liberals have been under pressure to make it a dual carriageway. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
A loop is provided towards Race Course Road with a unidirectional 7.5 metres wide carriageway grade level service road for free turn towards Seshadripuram.
Work to reconstruct an underpass on the dual carriageway at Top Lane, Copmanthorpe, is expected to continue for the next six months.
A 25 mile traffic jam clogged the northbound carriageway of the M6.
Work will resume after the Easter weekend, which will mean a brief return to single lane carriageways during parts of the day.
He said two stretches of barriers had already been erected alongside the westbound carriageway - close to the village and alongside the underpass.
No one needs to spend 600 million on a short stretch of dual carriageway. Times, Sunday Times
Traffic came to a standstill when the one-foot wide pipe exploded at around 4am, forcing closure of the northbound carriage and lane two of the southbound carriageway.
A fuel spillage from the crash on the southbound carriageway resulted in tailbacks to Marks Tey.
As a result the footpath in this area will be extended, narrowing the carriageway, but creating a more pedestrian friendly environment.
The woman landed in the middle lane of the eastbound carriageway, but, miraculously, she wasn't hit by a vehicle.
Ministers are unlikely to introduce 80mph on stretches of the motorway network that are only dual carriageway. Times, Sunday Times
The crash happened on the London-bound carriageway of the busy arterial road just before 8am.
The answer is to double the capacity of the single carriageway, so the outer ring road is dualled all the way around.
Local consultation on the road which would be dual carriageway, with a possible extension is due to end next week.
There were reports of debris on the westbound carriageway and a 50 mph speed limit was imposed.
The nearside trailer wheels of the articulated lorry lifted six inches from the road surface and the load leaned to the offside and into the next carriageway.
Driving was relatively stress-free on the incredibly empty motorways and dual carriageways, and our trip also took us through some spectacular scenery as we crossed the Massif Central mountains.
The primary school attended by my grandchild is adjacent to a busy dual carriageway which could soon be widened. Times, Sunday Times
His vehicle jack-knifed, and crashed across all three lanes of the opposite carriageway.
AN auctioneer was stunned when a grass verge at the edge of a busy dual carriageway fetched 32,000. The Sun
The defendant parked a lorry overnight on a dual carriageway under a street light with its lights on.
Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
The nearside trailer wheels of the articulated lorry lifted six inches from the road surface and the load leaned to the offside and into the next carriageway.
Hundreds of motorists have been banned from driving after taking part in 100mph street races that turned a dual carriageway into a racetrack. Times, Sunday Times
Take coastal route as far as Caernarfon, leave dual carriageway at Bangor exit, follow route for Holyhead.
Our bus took us down a dual carriageway, over a hill and then the road stopped. For Love or Money
Adjacent to the busy dual carriageway around Basildon, with pylons overhead and two catteries for neighbours, the scrap yard was far from idyllic. The Guardian World News
Mr Spaul was approaching junction seven on the southbound carriageway of the motorway in his metallic blue car when the shocking incident occurred.
The car drove across the carriageway and mounted the kerb on the opposite side of the road.
TWO men fed up with roadworks reopened a dual carriageway - by removing 50 cones. The Sun
If you're speeding along a dual carriageway then only you are going to see that unless you video it. Times, Sunday Times
And he was just crossing over the dual carriageway to reach the northbound lane when the StatusQuo tour bus ran over him.
The eastbound carriageway was reduced to two lanes while collision investigators examined the scene.
One lane of the northbound carriageway was closed while emergency services dealt with the accident.
Here, the nearside lane of the westbound dual carriageway of the A64 was coned off, causing horrendous traffic jams.
THE M5 in Gloucestershire was closed on Saturday afternoon because a runaway horse was galloping the wrong way down the southbound carriageway.
That doesn't equip people driving in open conditions on the motorway or dual carriageways.
At lunchtime the bridge was clear southbound and there were only minor delays on the northbound carriageway.
There will be a contraflow with two lanes of the carriageway open in each direction, while at night sometimes that will be reduced to a single lane.
Until it opens, drivers are having to use the York Outer Ring Road flyover to cross the dual carriageway.
Skyscrapers shoot out of the ground like mushrooms overnight, and each humid and often overcast day brings a fresh twist in the tangle of four-lane carriageways that snake through the city.
Just at that moment he saw the exit from the Westway and swung off the raised carriageway.
Two lanes of the eastbound carriageway also had to be closed because of debris and to allow access for the emergency services.
But there were delays too on the eastbound carriageway as a result of drivers rubbernecking, which saw vehicles slowing down so their occupants could take a look at the accident scene rather than continuing to drive on.
Lane three of the eastbound carriageway was closed while police towed away the white van.
But he said the edge of the carriageway was ‘ill-defined’, with pine needles and other debris deposited there.
The outside lane of the northbound carriageway was closed for half an hour while recovery teams cleared away the debris.
Why is it that I always get stuck in traffic jams on dual carriageways, where it is impossible to do a U-turn (or anything else about it), when I am dying for a wee?
Simply widen the existing road into a dual carriageway. Times, Sunday Times
Vehicles should be parked as close as possible to the edge of the carriageway.
All three were wearing balaclavas and fled in the northbound direction on the dual carriageway in a dark green Volvo estate.
The Highways Agency only recently ruled out any extra lanes on the eastbound contraflow when work resumes on the project in the New Year and the westbound carriageway is closed.
His vehicle jack-knifed, and crashed across all three lanes of the opposite carriageway.
The heads will face one another topped with a helmet and lamp from which beams of light will illuminate the carriageways.
The tunnel would be a dual carriageway. Times, Sunday Times
Driving down the dual carriageway on a cold February afternoon, a boy, who was about as far from glamorous as it is possible to be, was heading homewards. Irish Blogs
Is 50mph the right speed limit for single carriageway roads? Times, Sunday Times
The project comprises a main flyover along Seshadri Road with unidirectional carriageway, and a loop towards Race Course side with a unidirectional carriageway.
A good dual carriageway with two lanes for ordinary traffic and one for buses has been reduced to a congested road with one lane for traffic and one bus lane each way.
The only potential problem was the gusts of winds blowing across the carriageway.
People in Kirkfields want a priority traffic system with carriageway narrowing and road humps to slow drivers down.
North Yorkshire police said the accident happened at 8.30 last night when a tanker crossed the central reservation while travelling north and overturned on the southbound carriageway.
The NRA also claims that more dual carriageways and motorways will save lives, suggesting that the nonconformists are, if not anti-life, at least prepared to turn a blind eye to protect their own interests.

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