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This road is colloquially referred to as the " Naas Dual carriageway " because when it was originally up-graded in 1964 the road from Dublin to Naas was a double lane carriageway, one of the first of its kind in Ireland.
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Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.
The road, a comparatively new one, is very good, winding along inlets, coves, and bays of deep and brilliant blue.
Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.
Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.
The road to a guaranteed-neutral, coup-proof Laos is today almost as difficult as warfare on that nation's terrain.
A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.
`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.
This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.
The existence of road systems permits an intensity of management and use for all National Forest purposes that is not otherwise possible.
An almost too-simple-to-be-true way to set forth on such adventures is just to put yourself behind the wheel of a car and head for the open road.
Look Jed, this is an open and shut case and I have to relieve my men at the road block soon.
A Highway Department source said there also is a plan there to issue some $3 million to $4 million worth of Rural Roads Authority bonds for rural road construction work.
The house is on Old Annapolis road a mile south of Severna Park, at Jones Station, police said.
If nothing is done, the prospect is that that road will be in default of interest in 1962.
It is a land of long fjords, few people, a single-lane road miles away -- and of wild stags, Greylag geese, wild swans, dolphins and porpoises playing in the waters.
Or you could wish your daddy would really do it -- kill Gratt Shafer like he said when you all the time, all along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night.
The primary use of asphalt is in road construction, where it is used as the glue or binder mixed with aggregate particles to create asphalt concrete.
The road between Lubango and Namibe, for example, was completed recently with funding from the European Union, and is comparable to many European main routes.
Progress to complete the road infrastructure is likely to take some decades, but substantial efforts are already being made in the right directions.
The economic purpose of the Chaco road system is shown by the presence of luxury items at Pueblo Bonito and elsewhere in the canyon.
Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.
The McMurdo – South Pole Highway is a 900-mile ( 1450 km ) road in Antarctica linking the United States McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.
No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin was often teased for his optimistic aphorisms, known colloquially and ironically as raffarinades, the best known being La route est droite, mais la pente est forte (" The road is straight, but the slope is steep ").
The word " street " is still sometimes used colloquially as a synonym for " road ", for example in connection with the ancient Watling Street, but city residents and urban planners draw a crucial modern distinction: a road's main function is transportation, while streets facilitate public interaction.
The Stillorgan Road ( colloquially known as the Stillorgan dualler ) brings the road past Belfield, where University College Dublin is located ( and accessed from a grade-separated interchange on the dual carriageway-the first full interchange built in Ireland ) and onwards past Mount Merrion towards Stillorgan village.
Its official name is " Aldwych " but the road is sometimes colloquially referred to as " The Aldwych ", rather in the same manner that " Strand " is often referred to as " The Strand ".
Langholm, also known colloquially as the " Muckle Toon ", is a burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the River Esk and the A7 road.
A few steam rollers were still being used for road maintenance in the early 1970s, and this may go some way to explaining why diesel-powered rollers are still colloquially known as steam rollers to this day.
Bethesda is a town lying on the River Ogwen and the A5 road on the edge of Snowdonia, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, colloquially called Pesda by the locals.
The pedestrian-friendly town centre surrounds 8th Street, or " Main Street " ( as it is known colloquially ), which was originally a residential road with some of the oldest architecture in the town ; now, however, it is lined with small shops, restaurants, and galleries.
These designs, called " road bikes " or colloquially, " roadies " or " racing bikes ", have become less popular in recent years.
Palmerston grew at a major road junction: State Highway 1 links Dunedin and Waikouaiti to the south with Oamaru and Christchurch to the north, whereas State Highway 85 ( known colloquially as " The Pigroot ") heads inland to become the principal highway of the Maniototo.
A multi-vehicle collision ( colloquially known as a pile-up ) is a road traffic accident involving many vehicles.
The R117 road, colloquially known as " The Twenty-One Bends " connects the town to the main N11 road to Dublin.
" It is colloquially referred to as the " Mixing Bowl ," but highway officials still use that terminology to refer to the interchange complex at the Pentagon ( see Pentagon road network ).
In some parts of the world, road rollers are still known colloquially as steam rollers, regardless of their method of propulsion.
Locally, this stretch of the road is known as the Roman Ridge, although it is more colloquially known as the Roman Rigg.
The regions on either side of road are colloquially referred to as Budaiya.
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This road is referred to as the UMDA Road.
The word derives from the old Norse " gata ", meaning road or path, and originally referred to the gap in the wall or fence, rather than the barrier which closed it.
These two quads are surrounded by the university's main access road, a one-way loop referred to as the " inner loop ".
A travel atlas may also be referred to as a road map.
Some stretches of the road are sometimes referred to by cardinal direction.
It is called White's Branch Arch ( also known as the Narrows ) and the road going over it is usually referred to as the Narrows Road.
Although direct operation of a bicycle and a mounted animal are commonly referred to as riding, such operators are legally considered drivers and are required to obey the rules of the road.
Driving over a long distance is referred to as a road trip.
By 1757, the building was referred to as " The Falls Church ", as it was located along the main tobacco rolling road from the Little Falls of the Potomac River.
The road is confusingly referred to as Stane Street in some sources, although it diverges from the main London-Chichester road at Kennington.
Upper Kalskag, referred to by the locals as just " Upper ", is linked to Lower Kalskag ( Lower ) by a single two mile maintained gravel / dirt road.
The road passing it is called the Tom Watson Parkway, though generally referred to as Highway 45.
The main thoroughfares for the community ran from the Hudson River to Salisbury, CT and travelers referred to the road as the " turnpike.
The main north-south road through Edgemont is Central Park Avenue, often referred to as Central Avenue by residents.
Because both it and the neighboring town of West Columbia share road names and schools, they are sometimes referred to jointly as Cayce-West Columbia.
This road is now referred to as the Monte-Elma Road.
The term ' skid road ' dates back to the 17th century, when it referred to a log road, used to skid or drag logs through woods and bog.
The term " Bronx River Parkway " originally referred to the Bronx River Reservation, New York's first linear park, of which the road is a portion, from the Bronx – Westchester county line to Kensico Dam Plaza.
In 1781, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, ordered the destruction of the city's fortified walls – their former location however continues to be referred to in the Latin terms intra muros ( within the walls ) and extra muros ( outside ), and meanwhile the site became that of the inner ring road.
The Rhine is crossed by the Pfaffendorf Bridge, originally the location of a rail bridge, but now a road bridge and, a mile south of town, by the Horchheim Railway Bridge, consisting of two wide and lofty spans carrying the Lahn Valley Railway, part of the Berlin railway referred to above.
* Oprah Winfrey has referred to her success as a " yellow brick road of blessings " during both the announcement of the decision to end her talk show and the farewell episode.
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