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A road verge is a strip of groundcover consisting of grass or garden plants, and sometimes also shrubs and trees, located between a roadway and a sidewalk. [1] Verges are known by dozens of other names such as grass strip, nature strip, curb strip, or park strip, the usage of which is often quite regional.
Stone curbs and raised sidewalks on both sides of a 2000-year-old paved road in Pompeii, Italy A curb with the street name on the sidewalk in New Orleans. A curb (American English) or kerb (British English) is the edge where a raised sidewalk or road median/central reservation meets a street or other roadway.
A sidewalk is normally higher than the roadway, and separated from it by a curb. There may also be a planted strip between the sidewalk and the roadway and between the roadway and the adjacent land. In some places, the same term may also be used for a paved path, trail or footpath that is not next to a road, such as a path through a park.
A curb extension marked by darkened tarmac and black posts. A curb extension (or also neckdown, kerb extension, bulb-out, bump-out, kerb build-out, nib, elephant ear, curb bulge, curb bulb, or blister) is a traffic calming measure which widens the sidewalk for a short distance. This reduces the crossing distance and allows pedestrians and ...
Installing a 10-foot-wide trail along University with off-street, raised bicycle lanes between 41st Street and 42nd Street that will have a 2- to 3-foot buffer from the curb. A similar concept ...
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA @STARADVERTISER.COM Chinese granite sidewalk paver stones and local lava rock curb stones found in historic parts of downtown Honolulu, top, are being removed, discarded ...
A median strip, central reservation, roadway median, or traffic median is the reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways such as divided highways, dual carriageways, freeways, and motorways. The term also applies to divided roadways other than highways, including some major streets in urban or suburban areas.
An audit of L.A.'s scandalous response to broken sidewalks put the service ... the sidewalk mountain ranges scattered about the area. ... of more than 1,000 lawsuits between 2020 and 2023 at more ...