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beltways

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plural of beltway

as in parkways

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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the museum offers a patriotic lens into how the canals, highways, railroads and mines that stitched this country together were built by machines born in American factories.

— Malika Bowling, USA Today, 3 July 2026

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The 664-foot-wide by 120-foot-tall Prado Dam Bicentennial Mural, located near the intersection of the 91 and 71 freeways near Corona, turned 50.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Another lithium-ion fire in 2024 forced authorities to close one of the major freeways leading out of the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach for a day.

— Tom Wait, CBS News, 24 June 2026

Definition of freeways

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Rodríguez denied those claims, saying some remote areas were difficult to reach because roads were blocked by landslides and debris, forcing authorities to rely on motorcycles, drones and satellite imagery.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
The roads can become extremely dangerous during this period because of fog, smoke, black ice and poor visibility.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026

Definition of roads

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There was also a huge security perimeter, with major thoroughfares around MSG closed off to cars and pedestrians.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2026
The unearthed quarters included north-south thoroughfares intersected by east-west streets, forming open squares and public spaces, said Hisham el-Leithy, secretary general of the supreme council of antiquities.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026

Definition of thoroughfares

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Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
In November 2016, Santa Clara County voters approved Measure B, a 30-year, half-cent countywide sales tax to enhance transit, highways, expressways, and active transportation (bicycles, pedestrians, and complete streets).

— Phan Khang, Mercury News, 18 May 2026

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