There is no great necessity to protect verges outside themetalledpart of the road.
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Under those circumstances, if motor vehicles use them, have the public authority power to close such roads if they are notmetalledroads?
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Yet there are only 2,000 miles of railway and 2,000 miles ofmetalledroads.
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They were either brought up on the carriers or were on themetalledroads themselves.
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In using the term "public rights of way" it is also intended to excludemetalledroads, which are the proper concern of existing highway authorities.
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It is a common sight throughout the country today to see footpaths being made up with a tarmacadammetalledsurface.
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The cause of the problem is usually a housing development or the creation, widening, or re-cambering ofmetalledhighways.
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The road is only partiallymetalled, and is heavy after rain.
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The owner-occupier of the farm adjoining the land decides to turn the lane into ametalledroad.
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He has been pressing the local county council to erect signposts where rights of way on his land are joined by ametalledroad.
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Fifty years ago our roads were merelymetalledwith loose granite and the farm carts and the farm waggons had to roll in the granite.
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I would not willingly walk off ametalledroad anywhere in that country at the moment; it is that unsafe.
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I wonder if my noble friend would tell me exactly how far off themetalledroad the highway, under the definition, extends.
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Othermetalledroads are of more local or regional importance and are the responsibility of local highway authorities.
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The result was that at very considerable expense they had to bemetalled.
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