0 a wide road for fast-moving traffic, with a limited number of places where drivers can enter and leave it:
the New York State Thruway
1 a wide road for fast-moving traffic, with a limited number of places where drivers can enter and leave it; an expressway:
the New York State Thruway
State highway money was increasingly diverted to planning the thruway system.
Residents along the proposed route have expressed concerns about the negative impact on their quality of life that the thruway will mean.
However, the work functions as a place to pause, gather, and socialize in what would otherwise be an ordinary thruway.
The thruway motorcoach service is used when normal rail service encounters disruptions.
They would also ride on the ambulance and assist with relay of patients from one city to another along the thruway.
In fact, the thruway authority has steadily increased tolls annually since 2006.
