Reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways.
A barrier on roads and highways between the opposing flows of traffic, usually covered with vegetation.
Synonyms
Examples for "central reservation"
Examples for "central reservation"
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MICROS supplies information systems such as central reservation for the hospitality industry.
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The lorry was blown over onto the central reservation on the M6 motorway in Cumbria.
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Her car smashed into the central reservation before coming to a halt on the hard shoulder.
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Three people have been injured on the M25 after a lorry crashed through the central reservation.
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A car collided with the central reservation on the M50 on Thursday morning, causing major traffic delays.
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I'll come to the resort if you think neutral ground is better.
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It is impossible for us to meet on neutral ground, I fear.
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No, the batteries commanding the neutral ground lie over that crest, Bob.
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When we are forced to meet, we will meet on neutral ground.
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Mr. Gwynn was not in politics; his dinner table would be neutral ground.
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A minute ago, we passed a stand of blithe in the median strip-
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I watch two grandmothers hobble along the median strip, holding hands.
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Then I got a stitch and collapsed on a median strip.
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At each aftershock, they sprinted from the lobby to the median strip of Wilshire Boulevard.
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Cars were streaming by on the other side of the median strip, heading towards their various destinations.
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As he did it, Eddie strolled across to the median strip and stood there, hands in pockets, looking east.
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He scuttled across the median strip and after another cautious look, he trotted across the westbound lanes of I-15.
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For a time the gunslinger said nothing, only looked up the median strip with his thumbs hooked in his gunbelt.
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The Grand Concourse was one of the widest avenues in the city, with a thick median strip down the center.
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She spends Sundays digging in her 'garden,' which is nothing but the median strip of the parking lot behind her plant shop.
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In the midnineties, Robert, never a good driver to begin with, had a car accident, rammed into a median strip over on Crenshaw.
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A huge kangaroo jumped from the median strip, over the bonnet of my car and straight into the car in the parallel lane.
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A damaged Mercedes-Benz Maybach registered to Spikes was found abandoned early Sunday in the median strip of Interstate 495 in Foxborough, Massachusetts, State Police said.
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I could not go back to the forest, to graze on highway median strips.
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People poured out of houses and stood on the grass median strips with tears streaming down their faces.
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Throughout the city, motorists left cars parked on the raised median strips of roadways hoping the extra elevation would protect them from flood damage.
