roadway

plural roadways

1. A way used as a road.

   Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.

   2024 January 21, Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, “Icy conditions make for hazardous travel across central US, but warmer air is on the horizon”, in CNN

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   On the south side of the two running lines is a second goods store, reached by a roadway along the south side of the station. This roadway also acts as a terminus for all provincial bus services from Limerick.

   1958 May 28, W. J. South and L. Hyland, “Limerick as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, pages 297-298

   It’s a dip of fewer than 150 deaths from highs reached in 2021, when the agency recorded the largest quarterly spike in its history of tracking roadway fatalities.

   2023 April 20, Gregory Wallace, “Roadway deaths level off after pandemic spike, but remain high”, in CNN

2. The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
3. The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.