"lay a road" is a correct phrase in written English and it is commonly used when talking about the process of building or constructing a road.
It is most often used in a technical or formal context. Example: "The construction company will need to lay a road to connect the new residential area to the main highway." Alternatively, it can also be used metaphorically to mean creating a path or paving the way for something to happen. Example: "The company is hoping their new marketing campaign will lay a road to success for their product."
He also receives some gifts, such as a bulldozer from a tractor company, and he hopes to sell the byproducts of his work six and one‐half mil lion tons of waste granite chips, enough to lay a road bed 30 feet wide and three inches deep from here to Capitol Hill.
The setting is equally reduced: in an unnamed nation "recovering from years of civil war, riddled with corruption and burdened now by a new and lawless government", Four and Nine have been instructed by their employers (of whom we see nothing) to lay a road surface from the impoverished south to the wealthier north, where the capital is situated.
On March 25 , 1742 an Orange County court order mandated that Jeremiah Smith and James Eaton "view and lay" a road from Caudy's property on the Cacapon River to Isaac Perkins's mill near Winchester.
The Department of Mines and Resources agreed to fund the project, and citizens proceeded to lay a new road as far as the river, beginning in 1913.
"We have to lay out a road map".
To lay out a road map for reinvention, a group of scholars and CEOs has created 25 ambitious challenges.
Any manufacturer whose strategy for the future includes additive techniques has to lay out a road map for getting there.
This work is intended to guide junior designers through a thorough design process and lay out a road map for experienced designers.
Tomorrow Britain's powerful Climate Change Committee will lay out a road map to put the country on track to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.
At the very least, the election period will freeze the current desultory American-led diplomacy, designed to end the intifada and lay out a "road map" to peace.
Regardless of who's responsible, the army has missed a chance to lay down a road map for Egypt's political transition, unwisely attempting to monopolize the entire process instead of sharing power with civilians.
