Carriageway

The huge rumbling dual carriageway is a silent, deep red stained strip of concrete. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)

A bridge was built in 1971, and the dual carriageway from the bridge carries you past Barbatre all the way to Noirmoutier-en-l’Île, which is the island’s main town. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I know I feel pretty safe on the dual-carriageway, which is very similar to a motorway - accept it has 2 lanes of course.

Bangham said: "Our main line of inquiry has now moved towards the event that was on the side of the carriageway." ❋ Unknown (2011)

In an average day the average London motorist probably breaks a couple of laws - straying into a box junction without the exit being clear, moving into a bus lane to pass a car turning right and blocking the only carriageway allowed to cars, etc.etc. etc. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

Bangham said there was fog in the area but witnesses told police there was "very significant smoke across the carriageway." ❋ Unknown (2011)

We were at the hospital waiting to see the ambo drivers for continuity statements following a death of a twelve year old hit crossing a dual carriageway, they were pressed at casualty with a busy influx of customers when a very frantic couple burst into the waiting area. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

A couple of minutes later he spotted the team from Technical on the far side of the inbound carriageway, opposite the row of shops on Marino Parade. ❋ Gerard O’Donovan (2011)

The motorway, which had been closed in both directions, was fully reopened on Sunday night after the 60 metres of carriageway that had been damaged by fire was repaired. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And Mulcahy just grunted as he floored the accelerator again, blazing a full mile up the rule-straight carriageway until, at the Phoenix Monument, he swung the wheel hard left and sped down into the still deeper darkness of Acres Road. ❋ Gerard O’Donovan (2011)

A few auto-rickshaws putter straight down the centre of the three- or four-lane carriageway, not much faster than the bicycles ridden by the night-watchmen returning from their shift. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So when we stood on a small patch of ground there, beside the ancient chapel and no more than a few yards from the crowded dual carriageway, with two sleeping pygmy goats, a crested cockerel and two hens for company, we were as unaware of the hordes racing past as they were of us or of the chapel, and seemingly translated into a different sphere of existence from theirs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Our driver swerves to the left and stops in the middle of the carriageway facing the hooting, oncoming traffic. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Compare that to the usual UK scenario; built up areas, single carriageway winding roads with parked cars and numerous pedestrians. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

Both their cars were on the opposite carriageway, one in the overtaking lane, one in the slow lane, doing in excess of 80mph into oncoming traffic. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)