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unusual facts about Dual carriageway



A483 road

Discussions have taken place to make the route from Ruabon to Oswestry a dual carriageway, as part of a plan to dual the route from Wrexham to Shrewsbury (part of which is the A5 road) in an effort to increase transport links with the M54 motorway.

Great Sugar Loaf

It is also known as the Big Sugar Loaf, to distinguish it from the Little Sugar Loaf to the east on the other side of the N11 dual carriageway from Dublin to Wicklow.

Minnesota State Highway 95

Primarily a two-lane highway, Highway 95 has short concurrencies with State Highway 36 going into downtown Stillwater; and with Interstate 94 between Woodbury and the Wisconsin state line, that make up the only divided highway sections of Highway 95.

Transport in Cornwall

However, trunk road access to and from the rest of the UK is at the heart of Cornwall's transport infrastructure and it is now possible to drive on uninterrupted dual carriageway from Glasgow to Bodmin Moor.

Virginia State Route 28

Route 28/Centreville Road enters Fairfax County at Centreville, at which point it transitions from an undivided to a divided highway.


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A404 road

After passing through the town centre, and crossing the A40, it changes to a dual carriageway up the hill to the M40 Junction 4, and continues as a dual carriageway past Marlow and Bisham.

A61 road

South of Alfreton, the A61 merges with the dual carriageway A38, but the old A61 continues as the B6179 through Swanwick and Denby, meeting the A38 again just north of the City.

A638 road

It passes the Shell Ossett and Roundwood Industrial Estate on the left, and becomes a dual-carriageway, built with the M1 junction 40 by Costain in October 1968.

Charlton Hayes

The Main Hayes Way Dual Carriageway is separated into three roundabouts, named after the aeroplanes Concorde, Brabazon, Blenheim.

Lincoln County Hospital

Newark Hospital is closing its A&E facilities in April 2011, and just over half of patients that would have been sent to Newark by ambulance, will now go to Lincoln, via the dual-carriageway A46.

Merseytram

The network included large sections of reserved track in the centre reservations and side reservations of the dual carriageway system that was developed by Liverpool City Engineer, John Brodie.

Périphérique

Boulevard Périphérique, a controlled-access dual-carriageway ring road in Paris, France

Rachel Joynt

She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make Perpetual Motion (1995), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas dual carriageway and featured as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin in The Apology, a Guinness advert.

Sturt Highway

None of the Sturt Highway was constructed as dual-carriageway, however work was recently completed to upgrade the highway to freeway standards between the Gawler Bypass and Greenock in the Barossa Valley.

Western Avenue, London

After Savoy Circus the road, dual carriageway, takes a bend towards North Acton, crossing the Great Western Main Line as it does so.