We’ve always called it the interstate where I’m from. Highways are like like your two lane State roads. Then you got like your county County country roads.
I’ve checked several European states and china and each one of them has traffic lights on highways. I think there might be a misunderstanding. Freeways lack traffic lights, highways move slightly slower and can have traffic lights
Yeah our road deaths per capita are a wee bit worse than the European average (the lack of trains definitely doesn’t help) but our roads are statistically a fair bit safer than countries like the USA that build a lot of huge motorways!
What do you mean? Left turns are absolutely allowed on highways. Depending on the state, the definition of a highway involves traffic lights.
A lot of folks use the term highway to mean interstate highway or elevated or separated highway, where bikes and pedestrians are prohibited.
I usually use the word freeway for those types of roads, but that shouldn’t include tollways which usually also prohibit bikes and pedestrians.
We’ve always called it the interstate where I’m from. Highways are like like your two lane State roads. Then you got like your county County country roads.
Technically highways are any road that driving a motorized vehicle on requires a registration, license etc. basically any public road.
What does the state of the highway have to do with traffic lights? Are the ones in need of repair have less traffic lights?
My reaction
What the fuck. Oh well, in civilized countries at least.
I’ve checked several European states and china and each one of them has traffic lights on highways. I think there might be a misunderstanding. Freeways lack traffic lights, highways move slightly slower and can have traffic lights
Oh, I see, I am referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled-access_highway I guess you are not.
Yeah, let’s tread carefully around vaguely-defined English words in an international community.
My country’s State Highway system only has motorways like that for about 350 out of 11,000 km.
thats not very good for safety
Yeah our road deaths per capita are a wee bit worse than the European average (the lack of trains definitely doesn’t help) but our roads are statistically a fair bit safer than countries like the USA that build a lot of huge motorways!