road diet
road diet noun: the reduction of the width or number of lanes of a road, typically to make room for other improvements or for safety reasons.
Noun
road diet (plural road diets)
- The reduction of the width or number of lanes of a road, typically to make room for other improvements or for safety reasons.
- Federal transportation officials once heralded road diets for cutting crashes by 19% to 47%, but criteria for an upcoming round of road safety grants say projects aimed at “reducing lane capacity” should be considered “less favorably,” the administration said. […] When University of Iowa...2025 April 21, Jeff McMurray, “Trump’s transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using ‘road diets’ to slow speeders”, in AP News
- Synonyms:
- rechannelization
Synonyms of road diet
Forms of road diet
| plural | road diets |
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Questions about road diet
- What does road diet mean?
- Road diet means the reduction of the width or number of lanes of a road, typically to make room for other improvements or for safety reasons.
- What part of speech is road diet?
- Road diet is a noun.
- What is the plural of road diet?
- The plural of road diet is road diets.
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