Expressway vs Thruway - What's the difference?
expressway | thruway |
A divided highway where intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated.
(Canada, parts of the US, Malaysia, Singapore) A road built to freeway standards.
(New Zealand) A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway.
(US, nonstandard)
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As nouns the difference between expressway and thruway
is that expressway is a divided highway where intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated while thruway is (us|nonstandard).expressway
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(wikipedia expressway)Noun
(en noun)See also
* motorway * autoroutethruway
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Noun
(en noun)citation, genre=Transport , publisher=Government Printing Office , isbn=9780160907241 , page=337 , passage= … not less than 20 miles per hour on all portions of the thruway system. }}