basculement de chaussée
English translation: lane-switching / carriageway-switching
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|  Selected response from: Jennifer Levey Chile Local time: 05:44 | ||||||
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| 5 +1 | lane-switching / carriageway-switching |
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| 4 | contraflow |
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| 3 | Laying/sloping of roads |
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| 1 | tilting of pavement ???(roadway) |
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28 mins confidence: 
tilting of pavement ???(roadway) Explanation: Unevenness or tilting of roadway, roadbed, etc. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 31 mins (2007-05-18 14:48:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Chaussée" has about a dozen possible translation, so I'm guessing it means "roadway" or "roadbed" here, since it is a "temporary" road during construction. |
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34 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1lane-switching / carriageway-switching Explanation: It's referring to contra-flow arrangements on dual-carriageway roads, when traffic on one carriageway is switched to the other carriage, and needs to cross the central reservation. (NB: This is UK jargon - it may be different elsewhere...). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 35 mins (2007-05-18 14:52:41 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- oops! ... to the other carriageWAY ... |
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contraflow Explanation: Regular updates of traffic information, sorted traffic by severity, road name ... roadworks with a contraflow in operation due to tunnel maintenance work. ... www.rac.co.uk/web/trafficnews/incidents_roadworks?region=W&... Road and Footway Maintenance in Aberdeen City. ... will be controlled on Wellington Road with a combination of contraflow and lane closure arrangements. ... www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/ACCI/web/site/Roads/NSS/roa_roads_f... Contraflow—Contraflow or lane reversal is utilized during mass evacuations on major limited or controlled access highways to reduce the duration of an evacuation by opening up all lanes in one direction. http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/evac_primer/26_glossary... Contraflow 1. A technique used when carrying out maintenance on a dual carriageway which requires several lanes or a full carriageway to be closed. It involves temporarily transferring traffic in both directions onto just one carriageway to allow the other to be partly or fully closed. 2. A permanent lane of traffic which flows in the opposite direction on a one way street: this is almost always a contraflow bus lane or a contraflow cycle lane. http://www.cbrd.co.uk/reference/dictionary/ |
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13 hrs confidence:
Laying/sloping of roads Explanation: While laying of roads, we should bear in mind that while laying the road,provisions have to be done for the provisional connections at a later date |
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