The word 'highways' is correct and usable in written English
It is a common term used to refer to major roads or routes for vehicles. Example: The highways were congested with traffic during rush hour.
River flooding could close highways, potentially top levees and threaten some homes and businesses.
This little-known process, mired in the jargon of highways and transport legislation, allows local authorities to close roads permanently to allow new developments to be built.
Highways England used to simply warn there were "queues ahead", but now tells drivers it will be 17 minutes to their junction, points out Giles Perkins, business development director for intelligent transport at Mouchel, which runs the National Traffic Information Service.
Hand in hand with the spread of new private estates has been the closure of public highways and public rights of way under an obscure piece of planning law, known as "stopping up orders".
It has such a large number of highways and roundabouts and highway roads.
There is good evidence this is a cut-price way to reduce congestion, but it is questionable whether everybody would consider some traffic signs and highways police as "investment".
He was elected first in 1970 to Newbiggin urban district council, where he chaired the highways committee, and then for five years from 1974, after local government reorganisation, he was a member of the successor Wansbeck district council, chairing the planning committee.
So I downloaded Jack Kerouac's On the Road to my Kindle to keep me company and hit the highways, hoping to either recreate my earlier trip in a digital age, or just follow where the motorways – and websites – took me.
It's likely that the main highways will remain hopelessly congested, while new expressways go underused.
The country's main highways, which comprise 2% of India's roads yet carry 40% of the traffic, are to be widened and improved as well.
National highways are largely empty single-track roads, a welcome change after the busier motorways of central Argentina.
