It is signed as a major destination on London's orbital route, the M25, though the crossing and its approach road are an all-purpose road (the A282), allowing traffic prohibited from motorways to use it.
The living-room shelves sagged with books she could have used for the same purpose — "The Road Less Traveled," "Italy on $5 a Day" — but at that moment, she thinks, forgiving herself, no one would have wanted to move a single extra muscle.
After their 100km (62-mile) river journey, the parts will be transferred on to purpose-built road trailers, over 50 metres long, which will carry them by night a further 230km along a specially widened road to Toulouse.
It is only when you come to a stop like this, in a black night in the middle of nowhere, that things wobble a bit and you wonder about the purpose of roads.
The race, the 19th of 20 in the 2012 season — and possibly the decisive one in awarding the driver's championship — is scheduled for 56 laps of a new 3.4-mile purpose-built road course near Austin, Tex., where the surface is likely to be as smooth as your kitchen table.
But Home Depot cannot use the road for this purpose if the police, the Transportation Department or another city agency has plans for it.
The takings clause is uncontroversial when it is used to take property for public purposes like roads and schools.
He says her remarks that "profit without purpose" is the road to ruin could be read in two ways.
THE purpose of the "Road Home" plan was to steer federal aid to Lousiana homeowners whose houses had been trashed by Hurricane Katrina.
Over the years the location and purpose of the road has changed as development has overtaken planning, and today it is viewed as a crucial connector between the warehouses and truck depots at the Jamesburg exit of the turnpike and the corporate and office parks along traffic-clogged Route 1 between Princeton and New Brunswick.
The context of use is a criminal prohibition imposed for a presumably good public purpose of protecting road surfaces.
