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A river of strangers, all agreeing not to die at seventy miles an hour.
means A major road designed for fast, long-distance traffic, with multiple lanes, no crossroads, and restricted access for high-speed driving.
from A straightforward British compound: 'motor' (the car, from Latin 'motor,' a mover) plus 'way' (a road or path, old Germanic stock, related to 'wend' and 'weigh'). It arrived in the 20th century as Britain built its first high-speed roads — where Americans say 'highway' or 'freeway,' Britons named theirs after the motors that would race along them.
- first one
- Italy opened the world's first in 1924
- no exit
- Britain's M25 has no official start or end
- runway plan
- Some straight stretches double as emergency aircraft landings
- phantom jams
- Traffic stalls form from nothing but braking ripples
- longest haul
- Australia's Highway 1 circles the entire continent
m25 london orbital — 188-km highway encircling london, opened 1986, handles 200,000+ vehicles daily
autobahn a2 germany — 625-km highway berlin to cologne, no speed limits on many sections, opened 1936
interstate 95 usa — 3,000-km highway from miami to maine, busiest north-south corridor, completed 1980
pacific motorway m1 australia — 909-km highway sydney to gold coast, australia's longest motorway, opened 1968