| Charging only on motorways alone would increase traffic on local roads as drivers would divert to avoid the charge. |
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| The course gives new drivers experience on rural roads, in all weathers, on dual carriageways and motorways, night-time and in-town driving. |
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| Far from being the solution to our traffic woes, motorways are a large part of the problem. |
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| Few new parks were created, though a good deal of landscaping was carried out, particularly in new towns and on motorways. |
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| The county has 6,000 miles of roads, ranging from winding country lanes to roaring motorways. |
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| All major access routes and motorways to the town were re-routed or closed for the President's visit. |
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| The stronger case, however, is for a general strengthening of the main road network away from the motorways and trunk roads. |
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| Traffic was backing up as far as the motorways as roads in and around the city centre were closed by police. |
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| This means there's investment in railways and bus terminals as well as increased spending on display signs for motorways and parking. |
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| Plenty of varied road work ranging from motorways to the bumpy bog roads as well as a lot of urban use didn't faze this Nissan beaut. |
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| Obviously a lot of the footage was taken from standard footage of jammed motorways and so on, which helped make it more believable. |
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| It's mainly a one-track, very very bendy lane and since they opened the motorways we have had a high amount of traffic cutting through. |
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| In England the road traffic code system is much the same as here, if you stay away from the motorways and travel the country roads. |
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| The great Easter getaway will see thousands of trippers hitting roads and motorways with many making an early start tonight. |
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| Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways. |
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| He said research showed that up to 20 per cent of accidents on monotonous roads such as motorways were related to tiredness. |
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| Tiredness is thought to cause around ten deaths per week on Britain's roads and around a fifth of accidents on motorways and trunk roads. |
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| The Highways Agency will be keeping as many lanes as possible open on motorways and trunk roads to help keep traffic moving. |
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| Contrary to popular belief motorways are the safest roads to drive on and the speed limit should be increased. |
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| Falling asleep at the wheel is believed to account for up to 20 per cent of crashes on trunk roads and motorways. |
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| Specially installed fencing, underpasses and bridges over motorways and busy trunk roads in Essex are helping to reduce deer collisions. |
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| Fewer than 1 per cent of fatal accidents happen on dual carriageways and motorways, yet many of these roads are now plagued with speed cameras. |
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| Roadworks on England's motorways and trunk roads will be restricted to a minimum over the holiday weekend, the Highways Agency said. |
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| While major routes such as trunk roads and motorways receive relatively large amounts of cash, Scotland's local roads are in dire need of repair. |
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| Last year 6,400 tonnes of salt were needed to keep West Yorkshire's motorways and trunk roads snow-free. |
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| As motorways become more and more clogged up with traffic, a new generation of flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. |
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| He said rubbish on motorways is unsightly and poses a danger to both drivers and animals. |
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| There is noise pollution from the M60 and M66 motorways, and from the industrial units adjacent to our homes. |
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| Gritters were placed on standby ready to treat motorways and other main roads in an effort to prevent accidents. |
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| On trips, which varied from motorways to city roundabouts, I found it handled beautifully and steering was effortless. |
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| A group of U.K. farmers initiated blockades of oil refineries, fuel depots, and major motorways. |
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| Statistics show that many accidents that occur on motorways involve vehicles which are parked on the hard shoulder. |
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| Thousands of motorists were left stranded in traffic chaos yesterday when a heath fire forced one of Britain's busiest motorways to close. |
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| Local campaigns have stopped motorways being built and have created working class housing enclaves against the wishes of the property developers. |
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| Would we all be scared off the fast lane of Britain's motorways by Ferraris traveling at over 200 mph? |
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| Nobody denies the need to upgrade the existing system, but why are we having five intercity motorways? |
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| The materials used to make the lamp-posts are also used to make crash barriers on motorways and blades for wind turbines. |
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| There are concerns scaffolding could be used to construct gallows from which protesters would be suspended on motorways to halt traffic. |
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| Couldn't all motorways be derestricted at night, say between midnight and 4am? |
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| The government's measures have provoked other forms of disruption, such as go-slows by lorries on motorways and major city roads. |
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| Below lie suburban sprawl, motorways, and the remaining wheat fields of the Ile de France, the golden granary of Paris. |
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| And they are not the treehugging eco-warriors who spend their Saturdays sweeping up litter on motorways, as one might expect. |
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| Millions of pounds are spent on wider roads, motorways, dual carriageways and assorted other roads. |
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| The software is also speed-sensitive, so it can distinguish the different conditions in city driving and faster roads or motorways. |
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| An aircraft taking off produces about 140 decibels of noise and motorways a further 75 decibels, both above levels deemed unacceptable by some health experts. |
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| The Highways Agency said that its 100 gritters and ploughs in the north west were out throughout the night and gritted trunk roads and motorways twice. |
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| Slip roads on motorways and dual carriageways can be a real hazard. |
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| It comes following numerous accidents involving the vehicles, including incidents in which users have inadvertently driven their mobility scooters onto motorways. |
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| Meanwhile, the RAC warned that many motorists could be seriously risking their lives by unnecessarily stopping on the hard shoulders of motorways and dual carriageways. |
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| Their modern counterparts face much worse, being hemmed in by the spread of suburbia, by motorways and the remorseless growth of traffic on ordinary roads. |
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| No new safety barriers have been fitted on existing motorways or dual carriageways in the past 18 months even though experts say they can save lives. |
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| It reduces th e number of vehicles on the road so eliminating any need to expend billions of the taxpayer's money on new motorways, road widening schemes and bypasses. |
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| Friday night saw long tailbacks on motorways as drivers took to the road and a weekend of engineering works on a number of key railway lines began. |
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| Elsewhere in Britain motorways and minor roads were closed as lorries overturned, trees were uprooted and chimney stacks were toppled by 90 mph gusts. |
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| I would suggest that wherever possible you stick to the main autoroutes, though bear in mind that you will have to pay tolls on the French motorways. |
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| The plans to link our cities with motorways are behind schedule. |
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| Traffic on roads and motorways across the area was also busier and the situation was worsened by two accidents which created delays and tailbacks. |
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| The motorways and trunk roads that divide this once green and pleasant land into hundreds of polluted islands are littered with the debris of everyday motoring. |
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| Road noise can be reduced by the use of quieter road surfaces, screens erected alongside urban motorways and dual carriageways and better traffic management. |
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| Government plans signs on motorways to display service station fuel prices. |
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| The Highways Agency has made an historic commitment to the thousands of campers and caravanners who use its motorways and A roads. |
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| The other motorways are rather short sections close to the biggest cities, often designed to be bypasses. |
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| The number of the IP or IC of which a motorway section is a part is not signed except in some short motorways which lack a proper A number. |
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| Most motorways are located in the south of the country, where the population density is the highest. |
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| Work on the motorways continued until the 1970s when the oil crisis and The Troubles both intervened causing the abandonment of many schemes. |
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| Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin contain motorways, with only Auckland having a substantial motorway network. |
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| Again in the 1990s, after joining the European Economic Community, the country built many new motorways. |
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| In 1972, Brisa, the highway concessionaire, was founded to handle the management of many of the regions motorways. |
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| Many of the motorways pass through the downtown and other parts of the city in tunnels. |
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| The complete journey takes at least one and a half hours between the motorways, with the crossing being 35 minutes. |
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| With the introduction of motorways in the late 1950s, a new classification M was introduced. |
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| There are no motorways in Dorset but a network of A roads cross the county and two railway main lines connect to London. |
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| Sadly it is also vulnerable to road traffic, and many are killed crossing busy motorways and dual carriageways. |
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| The Scottish motorways and major trunk roads are managed by Transport Scotland. |
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| Top speed is 99mph,hardly earthshattering,but this is not a car that is going to spend lots of time on motorways. |
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| To enforce these new on-the-spot-fines, you'd need thousands of police cars cruising up and down our motorways to make any impression at all. |
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| The city invested heavily in roads infrastructure, with an extensive system of arterial roads and motorways that bisected the central area. |
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| The main M8 motorway passes through the city centre and connects to the M77, M73, and M80 motorways. |
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| The Breton motorways are not toll roads, contrarily to the usual French highways. |
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| Others, like virtually all British motorways, have entered the system as a result of new construction. |
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| Highways England publishes a full network map of trunk roads and motorways in England. |
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| The Buchanan Plan of 1964 envisaged a highly ambitious extended city centre, crossed with urban motorways. |
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| The first dual highway opened in Italy in 1924, between Milan and Varese, and now forms parts of the A8 and A9 motorways. |
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| In countries such as the United Kingdom new motorways require an Act of Parliament to ensure restricted right of way. |
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| According to Vinci Autoroutes one third of accidents in French motorways are due to sleepy driving. |
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| Running clockwise from the M1 the zones were defined for Zones 1 to 4 based on the proposed M2, M3 and M4 motorways. |
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| The M5 and M6 numbers were reserved for the other two planned long distance motorways. |
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| Since the passage of the Roads Act 1993, all motorways are part of, or form, national primary roads. |
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| Currently most states are adopting numbering systems with the prefix M for motorways. |
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| City ring and bypasses have numbers preceded by an R, these also can be either motorways or dual carriageways. |
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| As of November 2016 the total length of Morocco's motorways is 1,785 kilometres and 1,600 kilometres express ways. |
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| In the country 3,400 kilometres of motorways and 2,100 km of express ways are currently under construction in different parts of the country. |
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| In the year 2035 the total length of the motorways will be 5,185 kilometres of motorways and 3,700 kilometres of expressways. |
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| In Hong Kong major motorways are numbered from 1 to 10 in addition to their names. |
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| In 1981, the responsibilities for construction and maintenance of the motorways shifted from the federal to the regional governments. |
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| It was not the nippiest car I have ever driven but Citroen did not design this car to fire along motorways and take corners at a screech. |
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| The M60 and M56 motorways pass through the south of Manchester, through Northenden and Wythenshawe respectively. |
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| The A64 road connects areas in the North East of the region to the main body of motorways. |
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| There are three other smaller motorways in the region, all in the Bristol area. |
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| Sheffield is linked into the national motorway network via the M1 and M18 motorways. |
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| There have been many plans for motorways in the UK that have not been built. |
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| The list of motorways in the United Kingdom is a complete list of motorways in the United Kingdom. |
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| Rugby is near several major trunk routes including the M6, M1 and M45 motorways and the A45 road. |
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| With the M62 and M621, the M1 forms a ring of motorways around the south of Leeds. |
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| Further widening is in progress of minor sections with plans for managed motorways in many others. |
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| The Second Severn Crossing opened in 1996, together with new link motorways on either side of the estuary to divert the M4 over the new crossing. |
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| The National Highway Authority is responsible for the maintenance of national highways and motorways. |
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| He'd left his homeland at fifteen, seeking his fortune on the motorways of Britain with McAlpine's Fusiliers before migrating to Sydney. |
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| The M25, M26 and M20 motorways all use the Vale of Holmesdale to the north, and therefore run along or near the northern edge of the Weald. |
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| Familiar landscapes of shopping centres, motorways and tower blocks were central locations for his powerful psychogeographies, where kinky technophilia thrived. |
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| The M876, M80 and M8 motorways were all badly affected and police said they had helped stranded drivers get hotel accommodation or hot drinks and food. |
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| The road signs on motorways are particularly clear and well lit at night. |
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| The highways in Poland are divided into motorways and expressways. |
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| James Drake, a pioneer of British motorways, was also born here. |
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| In addition to these motorways, Java has 16 national highways. |
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| With the motorways in the late twentieth century came the M2 motorway bridge spanning the Medway and the Dartford tunnel and the Dartford Bridge spanning the Thames. |
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| Road building standards, for motorways in particular, allow asymmetrically designed road junctions, where merge and diverge lanes differ in length. |
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| Having only electronic tolls, former SCUT motorways can now only be used by vehicles equipped with electronic payment devices or vehicles registered in the system. |
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| Cities with motorways links close to Stirling include Glasgow, via the M80 motorway past Cumbernauld, and Edinburgh, via the M9 motorway past Falkirk. |
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| Environmental groups objected to the decision to go ahead with a scheme that would create the widest motorways in the UK without holding a public inquiry. |
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| A series of motorways runs along the coast from Paphos east to Ayia Napa, with two motorways running inland to Nicosia, one from Limassol and one from Larnaca. |
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| However, the Second World War and the reparation of the complete road network after the war caused a serious delay in the creation of other motorways. |
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| The Sheffield Parkway connects the city centre with the motorways. |
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| The A27 connects Chichester to the M27, M3 and M275 motorways. |
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| The Highways Agency is the executive agency responsible for trunk roads and motorways in England apart from the privately owned and operated M6 Toll. |
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| At the end of the 1970s, the construction of motorways slowed down again due to costs, combined with an economic crisis, more expensive fuel and changing public opinion. |
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| More recently, sections of former national primary routes which have been bypassed by motorways or other road improvement schemes have been downgraded to regional road status. |
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| Major railways and three major motorways traverse the county. |
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