north-south highway

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highway
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/us
/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/
a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or ...
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(Definition ofhighwayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The country's primarynorth-southhighway, which was damaged by the storm, had emergency repairs and was reopened within three days.
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Highway 29 is a minornorth-southhighwayof about 49km mi.
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Attempts to build anorth-southhighwayto serve the city have been problematic.
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The 2008 construction plan comprises fivenorth-southhighwaytrunk roads and seven east-west trunk roads and eight inter-provincial roads.
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Highway 13, anorth-southhighwaythat is the city's main thoroughfare.
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The route is officially considered and labelled as anorth-southhighway, but it actually more of diagonal northeast-southwest highway.
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In the numbering scheme for the primary routes, east-west highways are assigned even numbers and north-south highways are assigned odd numbers.
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North-south highways are assigned odd numbers whereas east-west highways are assigned even numbers.
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East-west highways carried even numbers and increased from north to south while north-south highways carried odd numbers and increased from east to west.
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The western section was divided in two by the construction of north-south highways.
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