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Here are a few tips and reminders about the cumbersome tasks of clearing driveways and sidewalks of the white stuff. More: Showcase your best snowstorm photos by sharing them with us. Here's how
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/other roadway.
Shoveling sidewalks will most likely lead to a snowball fight and under perfect conditions, will take us to the big hill up in the next town for an afternoon of sledding. But, without a doubt, the ...
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 drivers to see each other when parked vehicles would otherwise ...
A set of yellow truncated domes on the down-ramp in a parking lot. Tactile paving (also called tenji blocks, truncated domes, detectable warnings, tactile tiles, tactile ground surface indicators, tactile walking surface indicators, or detectable warning surfaces) is a system of textured ground surface indicators found at roadsides (such as at curb cuts), by and on stairs, and on railway ...
A shared-use path, mixed-use path or multi-use pathway [1] is a path which is "designed to accommodate the movement of pedestrians and cyclists". [2] Examples of shared-use paths include sidewalks designated as shared-use, bridleways and rail trails. A shared-use path typically has a surface that is asphalt, concrete or firmly packed crushed ...
An edge trimmer or lawn edger is a garden tool, either manual or motorised, [1] to form distinct boundaries between a lawn, typically consisting of a grass, or other soft botanical ground cover, and another ground surface feature such as a paved, concreted or asphalted area, or a granular material such as sand or gravel, or simply uncovered soil, for example an unbounded garden.