dual carriageway
(UK, Philippines) A road in which the two directions of traffic are separated by a central barrier or strip of land, known as a central reservation or median.
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(UK, Philippines) A road in which the two directions of traffic are separated by a central barrier or strip of land, known as a central reservation or median.
“Maybe the full application will include some way of crossing the dual carriageway and continuing across the roundabout and actually link to the rest of the cycle network.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) One side of a dual carriageway that carries traffic in a single direction.
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(US) A dual carriageway.
- divided highway76%
The standard American English term for what British drivers call a dual carriageway — a road with two or more lanes of traffic in each direction, separated by a central median or divider. It's functional, descriptive vocabulary rather than slang, but it represents one of those clean transatlantic vocabulary differences that trips people up. In the US the sign says 'divided highway ends' and everyone knows what to expect; in the UK the same concept travels under an entirely different name.
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(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) The part of a road that carries traffic.
- central reservation73%
(UK, Irish) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a motorway or dual carriageway.