Portal:Roads

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The World Roads Portal

Petronas Twin Towers visible in the background in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
.

A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, whose primary function is to serve as public spaces, the main function of roads is transportation.

There are

interstates, highways, thoroughfares
, and local roads.

The primary features of roads include

)

Selected article

5Great Eastern Highway at The Lakes (a rural locality east of Perth), heading east
east coast of Australia
.

The road is mostly a federally funded

Kalgoorlie. It is also signed as Highway 1 between The Causeway and Morrison Road, and State Route 51 between Johnson Street, Guildford, and Roe Highway
.

General images - load new batch

The following are images from various road-related articles on Wikipedia.

Selected image

Did you know

... that
Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative
?
... that labourers paving Saskatchewan Highway 641 in 1942 earned 35 cents an hour and a labourer with a tractor-drawn drag earned 50 cents an hour? ...that the
motorway network?
A road sign with the Transport typeface
A road sign with the Transport typeface

WikiProjects

Selected panorama

{{{caption}}}

Panorama between Sax and Frümsen in the municipality of Sennwald in the Rhine Valley[disambiguation needed], looking from Kreuzberg (on the left), to the Appenzell Alps, Saxer Gap, the Stauberen, and Hoher Kasten on the right.
Credit: (Böhringer friedrich)

Topics

Related portals

Things to do

This list is

transcluded from the tasks page, to edit this section click here
.


Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Highways:

  • Article request
    :
  • Improve: You may always improve the quality of road articles by adding more information and references to enhance the overall readers' experience. Improvements to
    Selected article and Selected picture are always needed, as with Did you know and News. Add to the Portal
  • B-Class
    articles which can be improved.
  • A-Class
    and can be improved.
  • Photo request: Just about all of them! Any pictures of Highways regions, road surface or infrastruture varieties or Highways would be useful. In particular we need Highways region maps that can be
    licensed
    for Wikipedia.
  • Highways Improvement Drive
    :
vieweditdiscusshistorywatch

Subcategories

The following entries are categories relating to road transport:
Category puzzle
Category puzzle
Select [►] to view subcategories

Associated Wikimedia

The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject:

Sources

Discover Wikipedia using portals

Purge server cache