single carriageway
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A road with one lane of traffic in each direction, not separated by a central reservation.
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- Many rural routes are just a single carriageway, so drive carefully.
- The collision occurred on a narrow single carriageway late last night.
- The national speed limit on a single carriageway in the UK is 60 mph for cars.
- There are plans to upgrade this busy single carriageway to a dual carriageway next year.
- After leaving the motorway, the road narrows to a single carriageway.
- Overtaking can be extremely dangerous on a winding single carriageway.
- Continue for five miles on this single carriageway until you see the sign for the village.
- A broken-down lorry is blocking the single carriageway, causing long delays.
- We drove for hours along a quiet single carriageway through the countryside.
- The traffic was much slower once we moved from the motorway onto the single carriageway.