expressway betydelse and definition

Exempel på expressway

• The expressway system stretching far beyond the city limits speeded the decentralization of white population to the suburbs.

• Expressway building and urban renewal programmes in the 1950s and 1960s provided powerful tools to reshape urban space and its uses.

• On the other hand, private discourse often laments the loss of beloved places - the meadow turned into a mall, the city neighborhood cut through by an expressway.

• No one in his right mind would attempt to cross the expressway on foot, because the traffic is so heavy.

• There are a number of advantages to an expressway.

• An expressway could be designed to suit long-distance journeys with fewer junctions, and could also improve conditions on the original road, freeing up space there.

• Expressways have been built instead of feeder roads to markets; office blocks have been built when homes were needed instead of shanty towns.

• As for the first junction, there is already a considerable problem with traffic tailback at the expressway, particularly in the evening rush hour.