Highways Sentence Examples

There were no broad, smooth highways as there are now.

In many boroughs similar acts had been obtained conferring various powers relating to sanitary matters, streets and highways and the like.

He would want to know, yet if he did, he might try to drive in on icy highways.

One of the consequences of the act was the abolition of tolls, statutelabour, causeway mail and other exactions for the maintenance of bridges and highways, and all turnpike roads became highways, and all highways became open to the public free of tolls and other exactions.

In an urban district the urban council have always had all the powers and duties of a surveyor of highways under the Highway highways Acts.

The management and maintenance of the highways and bridges is vested in county road trustees, viz.

These evidences of civilization did not make their appearance until the first great era of Japanese reform, the Taika period (645650), when stations were established along the principal highways, provision was made of post-horses, and a system of bells and checks was devised for distinguishing official carriers.

Each county has its own administrative boards and officers; and there are two justices of the peace and two constables for every township. The board of supervisors, consisting of not more than seven members, elected for a term of three years, has the care of county property and the management of county business, including highways and bridges; it fixes the rate of county taxes within prescribed limits, and levies the taxes for state and county purposes.

The other large river valleys are far less useful as highways, though each is paralleled by one or more railways.

Palma is the meeting place of all the highways in the island, and the terminus of the railway to Inca, Manacor, and Alcudia.

But there was one city of the East which, lying apart from the crowded highways of the world, had sunk to a mere provincial town, and yet possessed associations which the church of the 5th century felt herself powerless to eradicate.

The police that guard his house, the local boards which care for the poor, control highways, provide water, all derive their powers from the state.

The latter have the management of county buildings, such as courthouses ar,d prisons, have power to lay out new main highways, to grant licences, and to apportion among the towns and cities the taxation necessary to meet county expenses.

A large part of the province is only accessible by road, and even the main highways maintained by the state are ill kept.

Its construction may fairly be taken to mark the period at which the roads of which we have spoken, hitherto probably mere tracks, began to be transformed into real highways.

Roads.The construction of good highways has been well attended to in Germany only since the Napoleonic wars.

Hanover and Thuringia have long been distinguished for the excellence of their roads, but some districts suffer even still from the want of good highways.

The rivers are the great highways of communication, but, in consequence of the lowness of the water between October and May, navigation is then only possible for shallow draught stern-wheel steamers and launches.

Public order was rendered perfect; the Nile and the highways were secure to all travellers, Christian or Moslem; the Bedoumn.

It has been conjectured that some of the oldest trade routes were created for traffic in salt; at; any E1-ate salt and incense, the chief economic and religious necessaries of the ancient world, play a great part in all that we know of the ancient highways of commerce.

In the 12th century an act was passed providing that the highways between market-towns should be at least 20 ft.

As early as 1241 Lubeck, Hamburg and Soest had combined to secure their highways against robber knights.

They agree in depicting the emperor as a peripatetic sovereign, and the empire as held together by its military highways no less than by the strength of its armies.

The rivers play a very important part in the economy of Borneo, both as highways and as lines along which run the main arteries of population.

But between 1900 and 1905 contracts were signed for the construction of three highways, leading respectively from Matagalpa, from Nueva Segovia and from the Pis Pis mining district to the head of steam navigation on the Segovia, about 160 m.

These highways were to be linked to the western system by 79 m.

Railways.-The first ordinary roads deserving the name of highways were made about 1660, and canal-building began in 1 Newcastle, North Shields, South Shields.

These rivers have been of great service in the agricultural development of this part of Chile, affording means of transportation where railways and highways were entirely lacking.

An exception to the general rule is found in the Mulla, which carries the floods of the Kalat highlands into the Gandava basin and forms one of the most important of the ancient highways from the Indus plains to Kandahar.

In 1853 the work of constructing a proper system of roads was undertaken, and by the end of the century all the larger towns were linked together by the main or " royal " highways to which the " district " and " municipal " roads were subsidiary.

Among the smaller towns prominent because of an industry or commercial position, may be mentioned the Huanchaca mining centre of Pulacayo (pop. 6512), where 3200 men are employed in the mines and surface works of this great silver mining company; Uyuni (pop. 1587), the junction of the Pulacayo branch with the Antofagasta and Oruro railway, and also the converging point for several important highways and projected railways; and Tupiza (pop. 1644), a commercial and mining centre near the Argentine frontier, and the terminus of the Argentine railway extension into Bolivia.

Public highways have been constructed between the large cities and to some points on the frontiers, and subsidized stage coaches are run on some of them.

The department capitals are provided with municipal councils which have jurisdiction over certain local affairs, and over the construction and maintenance of some of the highways.

The constitution declares that railways are public highways, that the legislature has authority to regulate rates, and that discrimination in tolls shall not be allowed.

The officers of the township are a supervisor, clerk, treasurer, highwaycommissioner, one overseer of highways for each highway district, a justice of the peace, and not more than four constables, all of whom are elected at the annual township meeting in April.

The length of the main roads is about 22,000 m., and that of ordinary highways about 96,000.

The highways of England, the old coaching roads, are among the best in the world, being generally of a beautiful smoothness and well maintained; they vary, naturally, in different districts, but in many even the local roads are superior to some main roads in other countries.

As early as 1285 a law provided for the cutting down of trees and bushes on either side of highways, so as to deprive lawless men of cover.

The hundred rate is seldom made, though in some counties it may be made for purposes of main roads and bridges chargeable to the hundred as distinguished from the county at large; (ii.) the borrowing of money; (iii.) the passing of the accounts of, and the discharge of the county treasurer; (iv.) shire halls, county halls, assize courts, the judges' lodgings, lock-up houses, court houses, justices' rooms, police stations and county buildings, works and property; (v.) the licensing under any general act of houses and other places for music or for dancing, and the granting of licences under the Racecourses Licensing Act 1879; (vi.) the provision, enlargement, maintenance and management and visitation of, and other dealing with, asylums for pauper lunatics; (vii.) the establishment and maintenance of, and the contribution to, reformatory and industrial schools; (viii.) bridges and roads repairable with bridges, and any powers vested by the Highways and Locomotives Amendment Act 1878 in the county authority.

Special provision has also been made for the highways in the Isle of Wight and in South Wales, where the roads were formerly regulated by special acts, and not by the ordinary Highway Acts.

Except in these cases the highway authority in a parish was the surveyor of highways, elected annually by the inhabitants in vestry, or in a highway district consisting of a number of parishes united by order of quarter sessions, the highway board composed of waywardens representing the several parishes.

Of the chief duties of a district council with regard to highways, the first and most obvious is the duty to repair.

But while rural as well as urban district councils have the powers and duties of surveyors of highways, the provisions of the Public Health Acts relating to streets apply only in urban districts, except in so far as the Local Government Board may by order have conferred urban powers upon a rural district council.

Therefore every highway - whether carriage-way, driftway, bridleway or footway - which can be shown to have been in use before 1836, is presumably repairable by the inhabitants at large, the only exceptions being such highways as are repairable by private persons or corporate bodies ratione clausurae, ratione tenurae, or by prescription.

The other class of streets consists of those which are not highways repairable by the inhabitants at large.

The expenses of highways in an urban district fall as a rule upon the general district rate, but under certain conditions, which need not be here set out, a separate highway rate may have to be levied.

Of these the first is called general expenses, and it includes the expense of the establishment and officers of the council, of disinfection, providing of conveyance for infected persons, and the expenses of highways.

The department of public safety controls the bureaus of police, detectives, fire, health, electricity and building inspection; the department of public works controls bureaus of surveys, construction, highways and sewers, city property, water, assessment of water rents, parks, deed registry, bridges and light.

After 1830, however, many highways were opened, these being usually excellent among the mountains but deteriorating as they descend into the lowlands, where stone is dear.

Highways are maintained by the state, department or commune, according to their size and importance.

From Bogota the Spaniards constructed two partially-paved highways, one leading down to the Magdalena in the vicinity of Honda, while the other passed down into the upper valley of the same river in a south-westerly direction, over which communication was maintained with Popayan and other settlements of southern Colombia and Ecuador.

The island appears to be well watered, and some of its rivers are not without importance as possible highways of commerce; but the details of its hydrography are very partially ascertained.

During the early period, the settlement of the northern and central portions of the state was greatly retarded by the lack of highways or navigable waterways.

The county board also elects a county highway commissioner for a term of three years, is required to designate a system of prospective county highways, and may levy a special tax and borrow money for the development of the system.

Apart from country lanes and footpaths, there are three classes of highways, controlled, respectively, by the nation, department and commune.

Many excellent highways were built for strategic purposes before the abolition of the Military Frontier in 1881.

Its favourable situation in the midst of a plain intersected by the principal highways of central Europe, together with the fostering care of its rulers, now began the work of raising Leipzig to the position of a very important commercial town.

This body represents and acts for the county as a corporation; has charge of the erection and repair of county buildings; levies the county taxes, which are limited by law, however, to three mills on the dollar exclusive of those for schools, public highways, interest on the county debt, and other special purposes; divides the county into highway districts, and chooses a highway commissioner for each district for a term of two years; and chooses a superintendent of schools, a surveyor, a public administrator and public guardian, a board for the equalization of taxes, a coroner, a ranger, and a jail physician or health officer each for a term of two years, three commissioners of the poor for a term of three years (one each year), and a keeper and sealer of weights and measures to serve during its pleasure.

By the mid-18th century larger alehouses were becoming common, while inns beside the major highways grew in grandeur in this coaching era.

Public Works and Housing Minister Robert White said that ane will continue managing highways that cross through the cities.

Green signs used for toll expressway or highways only.

Distance will be measured from the main entrance of the school according to the shortest walking route using public highways and lighted footpaths.

Our attention is now turning back to other road safety issues such as roadside footpaths, which we first raised with Highways in 2004.

A designated area is an area such as park lands or adopted highways with a speed limit of 40 miles per hour or under.

Ride With Me - Large collection of original audio programs on travel in the United States with special emphasis on traveling interstate highways.

Driving around Mexico was surprisingly easy, with most roads in pretty good condition, especially the fast toll highways.

You should drive on the highways during daylight hours only.

Wheeled vehicles had to take their chances along poorly maintained valley bottom highways, often impassable in the winter with mud.

Participate in the introduction of Highways Agency patrols on the motorway network.

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These paths will be known as restricted byways - highways over which there are bridleway rights and the right to drive non-mechanically propelled vehicles.

From April 2003, some Highways Agency trunk roads will be transferred into the contract.

Gary was a leading visionary with the Highways Agency in developing and promoting the CAT procurement techniques.

The only highroad of importance which left Rome and ran eastwards, the Via.Valeria, was not completed as far as the Adriatic before the time of Claudius; but on the north and northwest started the main highways which communicated with central and northern Italy, and with all that part of the Roman empire which was accessible by land.

The southern of these highways, approaching through the eastern suburbs as Barking Road, becomes East India Docks Road in Poplar and Commercial Road East in Stepney.

Salaries and similar expenses incurred by the board are charged on a district fund to which the several parishes contribute; but each parish remains separately responsible for the expenses of maintaining its own highways.

Compared with this obscure process - this spread of the king's peace along the highways and through the distant forest lands of the 12th and 13th centuries - papal interdicts and jubilees, however impressive their spectacle, are but fleeting shows.

Monkeys in the trees gaze, pluck leaves, scamper down the highways, make out.

Please notify us of any refuse spillages on the highways.

Alan was able to report on steady progress in dealing with the backlog of highways work.

One example of this is a stile erected under sections 66 or 147 of the Highways Act 1980.

The churchwardens in each parish were to appoint a local man to serve as surveyor of the highways for the following year.

Bigger motorcycles with powerful engines are necessary for traveling fast on highways and freeways.

For those coming from the north or south, take major highways or roads until you reach Interstate 90.

The Amish still use horse drawn buggies for transportation and this is a common sight on the rural highways in Pennsylvania.

The benefits of recycling are more than just having less litter on the highways or less trash in the landfills.

One may think that 1.25 million hybrids on US highways is a good thing, but that 1.25 million only represents at 2.3 percent of the total vehicles on our roads.

Basically, the road maps have major highways and roads listed for a simple view of your locations.

Usually, the shortest driving distances on maps are non-interstate roads like state highways or two-lane roads.

Since speeds limits range anywhere from 65 mph to 75 mph, the major highways are your best bet for the shortest time.

More specifically, some of the best nighttime cityscape photographs are those that make use of this "long exposure" method, resulting in long red and orange streaks along the highways and other roads.

Many of the waterways served as the highways of the continent centuries ago.

In some parts of the southern US it has grown into flowering hedges along the highways where it was originally planted.

Brochures typically include a regional map that can help guests locate the somewhat isolated park in relation to main roads and highways.

Highways, overpasses, and bridges get too confusing at times, and it's quite easy to get lost.

The agency is focused on providing protection for the protecting the safety of the various modes of transportation within the United States, including air, waterways, railroads, highways.

The quiet country roads and isolated highways, such as U.S. 101, provide visitors a taste of towering forests and rolling hills.

Road Maps - A must-have for any driving vacation, these maps show the region's highways and byways.

Additionally, you can check boxes instructing the trip planner to avoid highways, avoid roads that require paying tolls, and avoid seasonal roads…all handy features in their own right.

This type of map displays roads and highways located in the United States.

Along with major roads and highways, small towns and two lane roads dot the pages of a city map.

Also, if you are traveling, consider getting off the beaten path of Interstate highways, Freeways and Thruways where prices are higher.

Following a 2004 redesign and record gas prices in the summer of 2008, the Prius quickly became a popular sight on U.S. highways.

Choose a Route - Most vehicle owners will drive a car on both city streets and highways.

Each state establishes the maximum size vehicles that can travel on the highways and smaller roads throughout the state.

Avoid this prank if your friend travels on busy highways, since the cans could be a hazard in this type of situation.

One of the services that State Farm is known best for is the State Farm Safety Patrol, which offers free roadside assistance to individuals who are stranded on certain highways.

The company is working to expand this service to more highways.

Public roads are unsuitable, as the trucks carry far too much in weight and length to be viable on these highways.

Mel Gibson plays Max, an Australian cop trying to keep order on the highways of the outback in Australia.

Cities grow up originally around first, waterways and later, major highways.

She wanted to tell him how much she missed him - how much she wished he was there, but he might jump in the truck and travel dangerous highways.

Compared to the spider web of highways in Los Angeles, it looked simple.

The rivers freeze rapidly; towards November 10th all the streams of the White Sea basin are ice-bound, and so remain for an average of 167 days; those of the Baltic, Black Sea and Caspian basins freeze later, but about December the 10th nearly all the rivers of the country are highways for sledges.

His method was to travel over the country on foot and barefooted, in extreme poverty, simplicity and austerity, preaching and instructing in highways and villages and towns, and in the castles of the nobility, controverting and discussing with the heretics.

Other remains which bear witness to tlae civilization of, the Mayas are the paved highways and the artificial reservoirs (aguadas) designed for the preservation of water for towns through the long dry season.

The Light Railways Act and the Locomotives on Highways Act were added to the statute book in 1896, and various clauses in the Finance Act effected reforms in respect of the death duties, the land-tax, farmers' income-tax and the beer duty.

The only good highways of any considerable length in 1908 were in the two western provinces and in the vicinity of Santiago.

During the second American occupation work was begun on a network of good rural highways.

This combination of natural and artificial highways of commerce derives an additional importance from the character of the regions thus.

Next to the poor rate came that for highways, and other special rates have been authorized from time to time, as for police, education, public lighting, cemeteries, libraries, sanitary purposes, &c. To distinguish the rate the name of the precepting authority is frequently added or the purpose for which it is levied specified, as county rate, watch rate, &c. The valuation list of a parish is the basis on which the poor rate is levied.

At common law the parish is required to maintain all highways within its bounds; but by special custom the obligation may attach to a particular township or district, and in certain cases the owner of land is bound by the conditions of his holding to keep a highway in repair.

Extensive changes in the English law of highways have been made by various highway acts, viz.

The leading principle of the Highway Act 1835 is to place the highways under the direction of parish surveyors, and to provide for the necessary expenses by a rate levied on the occupiers of land.

It is the duty of the surveyor to keep the highways in repair; and if a highway is out of repair, the surveyor may be summoned before justices and convicted in a penalty not exceedin ordered to complete the repairs within, a limited time.

By the Lights on Vehicles Act 1907, all vehicles on highways in England and Wales must display to the front a white light during the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise.

The public have a right to pass along a highway freely, safely and conveniently, and any wrongful act or omission which prevents them doing so is a nuisance, for the prevention and abatement of which the highways and other acts contain provisions.

The use of locomotives, motor cars and other vehicles on highways is regulated by acts of 1861-1903.

Formerly under the Turnpike Acts many of the more important highways were placed under the management of boards of commissioners or trustees.

By the Highways and Locomotives Act of 1878 disturnpiked roads became "main roads."

Ordinary highways might be declared to be "main roads," and "main roads" be reduced to the status of ordinary highways.

See Glen, Law Relating to Highways; Pratt, Law of Highways, Main Roads and Bridges.

The Florentines now undertook to open the highways of commerce towards Rome, for their city was already an important industrial and banking centre.

Ibn Khordadhbeh, in the middle of the 9th century, wrote a Book of Roads and Provinces to give an account of the highways, the posting-stations and the revenues of the provinces.

Six hundred years later, the local satraps are represented as having received instructions to build regular highways, and in the 3rd century the massing of troops for an over-sea expedition invested roads with new value.

In the larger " towns " the officers elected at this meeting may consist of five, seven or nine selectmen, a clerk, a treasurer, three or more assessors, three or more overseers of the poor, one or more collectors of taxes, one or more auditors, one or more surveyors of highways, a road commissioner, a sewer commissioner, a board of health, one or more constables, two or more field drivers, two or more fence viewers, and a tree warden; but in the smaller " towns " the number of selectmen niay be limited to three, the selectmen may assess the taxes, be overseers of the poor, and act as a board of health, and the treasurer or constable may collect the taxes.

The debt of the state (especially the contingent debt, secured by sinking funds) has been steadily rising since 1888, and especially since 1896, chiefly owing to the erection of important public buildings, the construction of state highways and metropolitan park roadways, the improvement of Boston harbour, the abolition of grade crossings on railways, and the expenses incurred for the Spanish-American War of 1898.

Each township is governed by the electors assembled annually (the first Tuesday in March) in town meeting and by three supervisors, a clerk, a treasurer, an assessor, a justice of the peace and a constable, and an overseer of highways for each road district, all elected at the town meeting, justice of the peace and a constable for a term'of two years, the other officers for a term of one year; each overseer of highways is chosen by the electors of his district.

It lies on the western slope of the Chiltern Hills, close to the entrance to a narrow valley which pierces them, and forms one of the highways through them to London, carrying the railway, the Grand Junction Canal, and a main road.

He was ordained deacon in the Church of England, 1740, but Whitefield recommended him to leave his curacies and go into the highways and hedges.

The general business of the town, other than that which comes before the town meeting, is managed by the selectmen, and they are specially intrusted with the regulation of the highways, sidewalks and commons.

The repairing of highways, the upkeep of public buildings,the support of public education, the remuneration of numerous officials connected with the collection of state taxes, the keeping of the cadastre, &c., constitute the principal objects of communal expenditure.

The rivers on the east coast are practically the only highways, the Malays always travelling by boat in preference to walking, but they serve their purpose very indifferently, and their great beauty is their chief claim to distinction.

He encouraged commerce, and, by constructing highways and building bridges, did much to facilitate it.

The river highways bring down inexhaustible supplies of rice to Moulmein, the chief town of the district, as also of the province of Tenasserim.

At the close of the 7th century the emperor Mommu is said to have enacted a law that wealthy persons living near the highways must supply rice to travellers, and in 745 an empress (Koken) directed that a stock of medical necessaries must be kept at the postal stations.

The highways were quiet on the Monday mid-morning, and they drove the three hours faster than she was expecting.

This was intended to give greater freedom to inland navigation, the rivers being the main highways of trade.

How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

But it is easiest, as they who work on the highways know, to find the hollows by the puddles after a shower.