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expressway

[ ik-spres-wey ]

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noun

a highway especially planned for high-speed traffic, usually having few if any intersections, limited points of access or exit, and a divider between lanes for traffic moving in opposite directions.

expressway

/ ɪkˈsprɛsˌweɪ /

First recorded in 1940–45; express + way ¹

It finally looks like New York, which is perpetually addled by traffic, will be constructing a new expressway.

It takes just as long to fly to Miami, he ponders, as it does to navigate the horrendous traffic on the Long Island Expressway.

The part between the end of the 401 and the EC Row expressway is already in the process of being re-graded and expanded.

I imagined us in a motel room bed off the Long Island Expressway so vividly that it almost seemed to have happened.

Of course, when we turned off of Stemmons Expressway, we knew then that we were headed toward Parkland.

After we got out to Stemmons—they'd set up a roadblock just as you entered Stemmons Expressway.

This is from that part of Elm Street that goes into the expressway?

That would be the railroad overpass over Stemmons Expressway service road.

It's over Stemmons Expressway; in other words, they make that turn off Elm and go up.

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