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See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...
A passing lane (North American English), overtaking lane (English outside North America) is a lane on a multi-lane highway or motorway closest to the median of the road (the central reservation) used for passing vehicles in other lanes. (North American usage also calls the higher-speed lane nearest the median the "inside lane" but in the United ...
Lane (La, Ln or L) Narrow way between walls, buildings or a narrow country or city roadway. Loop Roadway that diverges from and re-joins the main thoroughfare. Mall Sheltered walk, promenade or shopping precinct. Mews Roadway in a group of houses. Parade (Pde) Public promenade or roadway that has good pedestrian facilities along the side.
A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as homes or other sites, or works of art such as sculptures , statues , fountains or parks .
A roadside memorial, also referred to as a descanso, is a marker that usually commemorates a site where a person died suddenly and unexpectedly, away from home. Unlike a grave site headstone , which marks where a body is laid, the memorial marks the last place on earth where a person was alive – although in the past travelers were, out of ...
A shoulder (American English), hard shoulder (British English) [1] or breakdown lane (Australian English) is an emergency stopping lane by the verge on the outer side of a road or motorway. Many wider freeways , or expressways elsewhere have shoulders on both sides of each directional carriageway—in the median, as well as at the outer edges ...
A passing lane (North American English), overtaking lane (English outside North America) is a lane on a multi-lane highway or motorway closest to the median of the road (the central reservation) used for passing vehicles in other lanes. (North American usage also calls the higher-speed lane nearest the median the "inside lane" but in the United ...
Lane cake, also known as prize cake or Alabama Lane cake, a bourbon-laced baked cake; Lane, a single serial communication connection within a computer interface link (e.g., Ethernet, PCI Express) "The Lane", a 1996 single by Ice-T; The Lane Hotel, a historic building in Mathews, Virginia, US; Lane's Bakery, a former bakery in Madison, Wisconsin