Express way exit in this town

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Would you support the construction of an express way exit in this town?Is the above sentence correct?Can I say an express way exit to this town in the same meaning?Can I use gateway in the meaning of an exit and an entrance?What's the difference among express way, free way, and highway?ThanksLiJ

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

an express way exit in this town is not a coherent idea, in my opinion, no.
When speaking of roads and vehicles, the word gateway cannot be used, no.

What you may be trying to ask is one of these:

Is there an exit at that town?
How do you get to the freeway from here?

Where I live in California, but also in many other places, the following are the basic definitions.

A freeway is a road with multiple lanes of traffic in each direction, almost always with barriers between the sections going in opposite directions. Access is by ramps that merge into freeway traffic, not by a system of traffic lights. Exit ramps are the means of getting off the freeway, also without traffic lights. There are never any roads which intersect a freeway. There are no traffic lights. The roads are designed so that it is easy to drive -- as straight and flat as possible, and no tricky curves. They bypass the central portions of cities. Once you are on the freeway, you will not encounter a traffic light until after you exit. The speed limit is usually quite high. You can go literally thousands of miles on U.S. freeways. And you never encounter a cross street, cross road, or traffic light. Only freeways have exits, not highways or expressways.

A highway may be a two-lane road, one lane in each direction, or it may have multiple lanes in each direction. It is an older structure from the times before freeways. Freeways have replaced the highways that used to connect major cities, but many highways still exist which connect smaller cities. These are usually more scenic routes. They may wind through mountains or through forests or pass along the borders of farms. There are frequent curves and ups and downs which follow the contours of the terrain. If the highway is of the two-lane variety, passing the vehicle in front of you can be tricky. The center lines are marked to show where passing is allowed and where it is forbidden because of a hill or a curve. Highways pass directly through cities rather than passing around them as freeways do. The speed limit is not so high as for freeways.

An expressway is a road with multiple lanes of traffic in each direction, designed to move traffic through cities rapidly. They may or may not have barriers between the sections going in opposite directions. There are traffic lights and cross roads, but these are minimized by the designers. The speed limit is not so high as on a freeway because of the added danger of cross streets.

(In some localities the definitions may differ. For example, if I'm not mistaken, the Long Island Expressway in New York is actually what I've described above as a freeway.)

CJ

Liveinjapan · Answer

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