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Controlled-access highways evolved during the first half of the 20th century. Italy was the first country in the world to build controlled-access highways reserved for fast traffic and for motor vehicles only. [3] [4] Italy opened its first autostrada in 1924, A8, connecting Milan to Varese.
The Veterans Memorial Parkway in London, Ontario is a modern at-grade limited-access road with intersections. A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled-access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway ...
A junction that connects a controlled-access facility to a lower-order facility, such as an arterial or collector road. [4] The mainline is the controlled-access highway in a service interchange, while the crossroad is the lower-order facility that often includes at-grade intersections or roundabouts, which may pass over or under the mainline. [5]
Many countries have national networks of controlled-access highways, the names of which vary from one country to another e.g. freeway or motorway. The networks do not always include all such highways, or even all the major ones in the country.
Controlled-access highways in Thailand (2 C, 3 P) Motorways in Tunisia (5 P) U. Motorways in the United Kingdom (8 C, 2 P) Freeways in the United States (15 C, 153 P) V.
Category for controlled-access highways. Typically called freeways, expressways, and motorways. For limited-access roads, see Category:Limited-access roads.
An express lanes highway sign marks an entrance in Dallas, Friday, March 3, 2023. There is growing interest in the South in fee-based express lanes in which some drivers can up to avoid congestion ...
The old design was standard for interchanges at toll booths in Kentucky's parkway system of controlled-access toll roads; even though tolls have been removed from all of the roads, many of the old designs still exist at former toll booth sites. The Taylorsville Road interchange with the I-264 Watterson Expressway in Louisville. The B4 design ...