Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
duplicação de rodovias
English translation:
highway/road expansion/widening
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Eduardo Queiroz
Nov 16, 2004 18:47
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duplicação de rodovias
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O estado está fazendo um levantamento daqueles pontos da malha viária em que o crescimento do número de veículos justificaria a DUPLICAÇÃO DAS RODOVIAS.
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Portuguese term (edited):
duplica��o de rodovias
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highway/road expansion/widening
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Comment: ""Road widening" ficou ótimo! Encontrei milhares de exemplos com essa opção. Agradeço muito a todos os colegas pela ajuda."
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Portuguese term (edited):
duplica��o de rodovias
double-lane /(double-laned)highways
double-laned highways or through ways
National Car Rental Rent a Car, Driving in Panama, with offices in ... - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... Driving your rented car out of Panama City the situation changes. You will find
from very good double-lane highways to dirt roads that go through rivers. ...
www.1-costaricalink.com/panama_rent_a_car/ national_car_rental/driving_in_panama_eng.htm - 18k - Em cache - Páginas semelhantes
NDP Convention Moves Saskatchewan Backwards - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... "People across Saskatchewan were excited last week with talk about increased
speed limits on double lane highways," Hermanson said. ...
www.skcaucus.com/news/2002/November_2002/111802.htm
National Car Rental Rent a Car, Driving in Panama, with offices in ... - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... Driving your rented car out of Panama City the situation changes. You will find
from very good double-lane highways to dirt roads that go through rivers. ...
www.1-costaricalink.com/panama_rent_a_car/ national_car_rental/driving_in_panama_eng.htm - 18k - Em cache - Páginas semelhantes
NDP Convention Moves Saskatchewan Backwards - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... "People across Saskatchewan were excited last week with talk about increased
speed limits on double lane highways," Hermanson said. ...
www.skcaucus.com/news/2002/November_2002/111802.htm
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Portuguese term (edited):
duplica��o de rodovias
road duplication
Numerous URLs mention "road duplication" explicitly.
... list of projects requiring VicRoads funding after Cr Wreford said she was furious with the road’s previous position on the Main Road Duplication/Upgrades List ...
www.senews.com.au/webstory/wsbpage.cgi/ cranbourne/43.2004/story1_336452 - 10k
... list of projects requiring VicRoads funding after Cr Wreford said she was furious with the road’s previous position on the Main Road Duplication/Upgrades List ...
www.senews.com.au/webstory/wsbpage.cgi/ cranbourne/43.2004/story1_336452 - 10k
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Portuguese term (edited):
duplica��o de rodovias
highway upgrades
4_2_archived_articles
... Back to Archive. Highway upgrades will reduce travel time Driving time between Vancouver and Whistler should be cut by 25 minutes for 2010 Games. ...
www.wrec.com/articles_archived_read.php?id=87 -
Northern Ontario Business
... Northern Numbers. Northern INC. Influential Women. NOBA. Ultimate Business Tool. Northern Links. TOP STORIES. Tendering for highway upgrades spring 2003 (9/02). ...
www.northernontariobusiness.com/ displayHeadline.asp?291id115-pn=&view=19495
... Back to Archive. Highway upgrades will reduce travel time Driving time between Vancouver and Whistler should be cut by 25 minutes for 2010 Games. ...
www.wrec.com/articles_archived_read.php?id=87 -
Northern Ontario Business
... Northern Numbers. Northern INC. Influential Women. NOBA. Ultimate Business Tool. Northern Links. TOP STORIES. Tendering for highway upgrades spring 2003 (9/02). ...
www.northernontariobusiness.com/ displayHeadline.asp?291id115-pn=&view=19495
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Portuguese term (edited):
duplica��o de rodovias
doubling the number of highways/roads
...would justify doubling the number...to double the number...
My suggestion.
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Smart Growth Land Planning
... Los Angeles (among many other places) knows you could double the number of roads and the ... level to meet their needs, namely preservation and expansion of their ...
www.investinginland.com/smart_growth_land_planning.htm - 24k
... years. This implies that anything less than doubling the number of roads we have now will result in worse traffic congestion in 2025. ...
203.99.65.26/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3593008& thesection=news&thesubsection=dialogue&thesecon... - 29k - Supplemental Result
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Note added at 7 hrs 58 mins (2004-11-17 02:45:34 GMT)
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Then, I would say...
DOUBLING THE NUMBER OF LANES ON THE HIGHWAYS/ROADS
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... It may be that the benefits of building a particular highway are quite high, but the additional benefit of doubling the number of lanes will not be twice the ...
www.ncpa.org/oped/bartlett/jul898.html - 6k
... The common analogy for showing the advantages of parallelism is the effect of doubling the number of lanes on a freeway instead of doubling the speed limit. ...
www.embeddedlogic.com/TH99/h/txt/5167.txt - 13k
... This seventeen-mile project involved doubling the number of lanes from 6 to 12 ... TRAX complements the highway capacity expansion, freeing up additional capacity ...
www.house.gov/transportation/ highway/05-21-02/njord.html - 44k
... HOUSTON -- The Katy Freeway expansion plan goes before a federal ... and the Texas Department of Transportation from doubling the number of lanes on Interstate 10. ...
www.click2weather.com/news/2892559/detail.html - 40k - Supplemental Result
My suggestion.
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Note added at 5 hrs 43 mins (2004-11-17 00:30:46 GMT)
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Smart Growth Land Planning
... Los Angeles (among many other places) knows you could double the number of roads and the ... level to meet their needs, namely preservation and expansion of their ...
www.investinginland.com/smart_growth_land_planning.htm - 24k
... years. This implies that anything less than doubling the number of roads we have now will result in worse traffic congestion in 2025. ...
203.99.65.26/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3593008& thesection=news&thesubsection=dialogue&thesecon... - 29k - Supplemental Result
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Note added at 7 hrs 58 mins (2004-11-17 02:45:34 GMT)
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Then, I would say...
DOUBLING THE NUMBER OF LANES ON THE HIGHWAYS/ROADS
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Note added at 8 hrs 3 mins (2004-11-17 02:50:45 GMT)
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... It may be that the benefits of building a particular highway are quite high, but the additional benefit of doubling the number of lanes will not be twice the ...
www.ncpa.org/oped/bartlett/jul898.html - 6k
... The common analogy for showing the advantages of parallelism is the effect of doubling the number of lanes on a freeway instead of doubling the speed limit. ...
www.embeddedlogic.com/TH99/h/txt/5167.txt - 13k
... This seventeen-mile project involved doubling the number of lanes from 6 to 12 ... TRAX complements the highway capacity expansion, freeing up additional capacity ...
www.house.gov/transportation/ highway/05-21-02/njord.html - 44k
... HOUSTON -- The Katy Freeway expansion plan goes before a federal ... and the Texas Department of Transportation from doubling the number of lanes on Interstate 10. ...
www.click2weather.com/news/2892559/detail.html - 40k - Supplemental Result
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Discussion
For example, if a specific section of the road currently has two lanes, the idea is to add two more lanes; if a section currently has four lanes, the intention is to have eight lanes, and so on.