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  2. Alternate-side parking - Wikipedia

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    From the beginning, the New York City alternate-side parking law was "assailed" by opponents as actually impeding the efficient flow of traffic. [4] The system was created by either Paul Rogers Screvane, while a sanitation commissioner in Queens, New York, [5] or Isidore Cohen, [6] a Sanitation Department employee who later rose to Manhattan borough superintendent.

  3. Street sweeper - Wikipedia

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    A street sweeper or street cleaner is a person or machine that cleans streets. People have worked in cities as " sanitation workers " since sanitation and waste removal became a priority. A street-sweeping person would use a broom and shovel to clean off litter , animal waste and filth that accumulated on streets.

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  5. Illinois State Highway System - Wikipedia

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    Illinois Route 72 cross-sign mounted on a stoplight in Hoffman Estates. SBI Numbers are still used for several purposes, even when they do not match the posted number. IDOT District maps still refer to SBI numbers on the various roads it maintains, along with other non-posted designations that refer to how the route was authorized.

  6. Street hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    At the lowest level of the hierarchy, cul-de-sac streets, [1] by definition non-connecting, link with the next order street, a primary or secondary "collector"—either a ring road that surrounds a neighbourhood, or a curvilinear "front-to-back" path—which in turn links with the arterial. Arterials then link with the intercity highways at ...

  7. Concurrency (road) - Wikipedia

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    In some jurisdictions, however, concurrent numbering is avoided by posting only one route number on highway signs; other route numbers disappear at the start of the concurrency and reappear when it ends. However, any route that becomes unsigned in the middle of the concurrency will still be signed on most maps and road atlases.

  8. Road hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Bundesautobahn 9 near by Garching bei Muenchen, Germany. At the top of the hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed are controlled-access highways; their defining characteristic is the control of access to and from the road, meaning that the road cannot be directly accessed from properties or other roads, but only from specific connector roads.

  9. Curb extension - Wikipedia

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    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.