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  2. Roads in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom has a well developed and extensive network of roads totalling about 262,300 miles (422,100 km). Road distances are shown in miles or yards and UK speed limits are indicated in miles per hour (mph) or by the use of the national speed limit (NSL) symbol. Some vehicle categories have various lower maximum limits enforced by ...

  3. Metrication in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    In 1978 the cost of converting road signs from miles to kilometres in the United Kingdom was estimated to be between £7.5 million and £8.5 million. [100] In 2005 The Department for Transport (DfT) costed the replacement of all of the United Kingdom's road signs in a short period of time at between £565 million and £644 million. [101]

  4. Braking distance - Wikipedia

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    Braking distance refers to the distance a vehicle will travel from the point when its brakes are fully applied to when it comes to a complete stop. It is primarily affected by the original speed of the vehicle and the coefficient of friction between the tires and the road surface, [Note 1] and negligibly by the tires' rolling resistance and vehicle's air drag.

  5. Grade (slope) - Wikipedia

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    Grade (slope) The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal. It is a special case of the slope, where zero indicates horizontality. A larger number indicates higher or steeper ...

  6. Geometric design of roads - Wikipedia

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    Geometric roadway design can be broken into three main parts: alignment, profile, and cross-section. Combined, they provide a three-dimensional layout for a roadway. The alignment is the route of the road, defined as a series of horizontal tangents and curves. The profile is the vertical aspect of the road, including crest and sag curves, and ...

  7. The Ridgeway - Wikipedia

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    The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road. [2] The section clearly identified as an ancient trackway extends from Wiltshire along the chalk ridge of the Berkshire Downs to the River Thames at the Goring Gap , part of the Icknield Way which ran, not always on the ridge, from Salisbury Plain to East Anglia ...

  8. List of motorways in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Forms part of a ring road of Manchester. Also known as the Mancunian Way. Greater Manchester: 90,785 2.0 3.2 A58(M) Forms the western part of the Leeds inner ring road. West Yorkshire: 81,647 2.0 3.2 A627(M) A south-north motorway linking Rochdale to Oldham. Greater Manchester: 55,749 3.5 5.6 A64(M) Forms the eastern part of the Leeds inner ...

  9. Chain (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The chain (abbreviated ch) is a unit of length equal to 66 feet (22 yards), used in both the US customary and Imperial unit systems. It is subdivided into 100 links. [1][2] There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. [2] In metric terms, it is 20.1168 m long. [2] By extension, chainage (running distance) is the distance ...

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