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Jalan Ampang at night, with the Petronas Twin Towers visible in the background in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, whose primary function is to serve as public spaces, the main function of roads is transportation.

There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, thoroughfares, and local roads.

The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. (Full article...)

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The desert Cities in the Negev were linked to the Mediterranean end of the ancient Incense and Spice trading routes

The Incense Route or the Incense Road was a series of major ancient trading routes stretching across Egypt to India through Arabia. The incense trade flourished from South Arabia to the Mediterranean between roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 2nd century CE. The Incense Route served as a channel for trading of goods such as Arabian frankincense and myrrh; Indian spices, ebony, silk and fine textiles; and East African rare woods, feathers, animal skins and gold.

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The following are images from various road-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Laying asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 2The schedule of maximum tolls allowed on the Woodstock to Rollright Turnpike Trust on the Great Road to Worcester in 1751 (from History of road transport)
Image 3A road work at the Torikatu street in Oulu, Finland. (from Roadworks)
Image 4Pateros Traffic Enforcer And Roadworks Road Closed Construction in Pateros, Metro Manila, Philippines. (from Roadworks)
Image 5Closeup of asphalt on a driveway (from Road surface)
Image 6The Dutch Reach - Use far hand on handle when opening to avoid dooring cyclists or injuries to exiting drivers and passengers. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 7Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional highway 375 in Israel (from Road surface)
Image 8Red surfacing for a bicycle lane in the Netherlands (from Road surface)
Image 9Vehicles experiencing a breakdown or an emergency can stop in the emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 10Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City (from Road surface)
Image 11Deteriorating asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 12According to Eurostat and European Railway Agency, in European railway mode of transport, there is a fatality risk for passengers and occupants 28 times lower compared with car usage. Based on data by EU-27 member nations, 2008–2010. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 13An orange diamond sign for upcoming roadworks. The worded legend shown here is banned by the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, but is allowed in the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. (from Roadworks)
Image 14Guard rail on road in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) (from Road traffic safety)
Image 15Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from History of road transport)
Image 16John Metcalf, also known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough. Drawn by J R Smith in The Life of John Metcalf published 1801. (from History of road transport)
Image 17The Great North Road near Highgate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land. (from History of road transport)
Image 18Historical map of the original A8-A9 motorway, Italy. The first motorway ever built in the world was opened on 21 September 1924. (from History of road transport)
Image 19Highway repairs near Manali, India (from Roadworks)
Image 20Replacing the old road with concrete blocks in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China (from Road surface)
Image 21Utrecht has specially painted bicycle-only lanes. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 22Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain (from History of road transport)
Image 23Polymer cement overlaying to change asphalt pavement to brick texture and color to create decorative crosswalk (from Road surface)
Image 24German roadworks sign. In other European countries, the signs are similar. (from Roadworks)
Image 25Safe from traffic for cycling along a fully segregated Fietspad, properly designed cycling infrastructure in Amsterdam (from Road traffic safety)
Image 26Pavement ends and turns into gravel surface road (from Road surface)
Image 27Different layers of road including asphalt layer. The total thickness of a pavement can be measured using granular base equivalency (from Road surface)
Image 28A concrete road in Ewing, New Jersey. (from Road surface)
Image 29Car fatalities per pax-km vs. car usage per pax-day; in Europe. It seems, at least in these European countries, that car fatalities per person-km have no strong correlation with massification of car usage. The average car usage in these countries is around 30km per person-day with varying number of fatalities ratios. These differences might be related with different cultural approaches to traffic codes, or more safety measures implemented on such countries. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 30Jan Brueghel (I) - Travellers on the Way, second half of 16th Century (from History of road transport)
Image 31An example of composite pavement: hot-mix asphalt overlaid onto Portland cement concrete pavement (from Road surface)
Image 32According to Eurostat, there is almost a linear proportion between the total number of passenger-km driven by car and road fatalities. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 33Annual traffic deaths sign over I-95 in Georgia, US, indicating more than three deaths per day (from Road traffic safety)
Image 34Concrete roadway in San Jose, California (from Road surface)
Image 35Concrete pavers (from Road surface)
Image 36Gravel road in Namibia (from Road surface)
Image 37Road workers crushing rocks, in the mountains near Kullu (from Roadworks)
Image 38A road being resurfaced using a road roller (from Road surface)
Image 39Speed limits in different areas, unusually with only a "recommended" limit (130 km/h) for the Autobahn (from Road traffic safety)
Image 40Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China. (from Roadworks)
Image 41Sacrifices to the Modern Moloch, a 1922 cartoon published in The New York Times, criticizing the apparent acceptance by society of increasing automobile-related fatalities (from Road traffic safety)
Image 42Map of Roman roads in 125CE (from History of road transport)

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Interchange near Lausanne, Switzerland
Credit: (Rama)

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Did you know

...that Berlinka (pictured) was a partially constructed highway built by Nazi Germany that was intended to span the Polish Corridor from Berlin to Königsberg, Prussia?

..that 24 Royal Marines cadets aged 10 to 13 were killed when a double-decker bus ploughed into their marching column in the 1951 Gillingham bus disaster, setting a new British record of fatalities in a road accident?

WikiProjects

WikiProject Highways—principal WikiProject
- U.S. Roads—United States state highways and county roads
- U.S. Streets—United States city streets
- Australian Roads—Australian highways, principal roads, and main city streets
- Canada Roads—Canada provincial highways
- Canada Streets—Canada city streets
- WikiProject UK Roads—roads in the United Kingdom
  - London transport—roads, etc.
- Paris Streets
- China Transportation—includes expressways, ring roads, Roads, national highways, etc
- Germany transportation
- Indian Roads
- Nepal transportation
- Pakistani Roads
- Scotland transport—includes road and bus transport in Scotland

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Teen Murti Chowk (The "Three Statue" roundabout) in New Delhi, India, directly in front of Teen Murti Bhavan
Credit: Rakesh Agrawal (Rakeshagrawal)

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