ejes viales
English translation: main roads
| 17:36 Apr 23, 2008 |
| Spanish to English translations [PRO] Construction / Civil Engineering | |||||
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|  Selected response from: John Rawlins Spain Local time: 20:46 | ||||
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| 4 | trunk roads |
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| 4 | arterial/arterial road |
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| 4 | Highway corridors |
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| 3 | main roads |
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| 3 | roads |
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4 mins confidence: 
trunk roads Explanation: These are major arteries, throughways that intersect many other roads. |
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arterial/arterial road Explanation: No. 4: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=arterial&x=0&y=0 http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arterial y ir a "arterial[2,noun]" |
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44 mins confidence:
main roads Explanation: Not sure that 'trunk' is used to describe roads in the US. |
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54 mins confidence:
roads Explanation: Eje vial engloba cualquier tipo de carretera, calle, autopista ... Quizá tu idea de "road" sea la mejor. En función del contexto incluso "route". |
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Highway corridors Language variant: US Explanation: Highway corridors is the preferred expression for major transversal routes (ejes viales). I've used it for the transoceanic "ejes viales" in South America (Brazil- Pacific) now under construction. Used by US DoT, IABD and many others Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.ncdot.org/doh/PRECONSTRUCT/tpb/shc/ Reference: http://www.iadb.org/exr/doc98/apr/pr933e.pdf |
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