The word "roadside" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the area along the side of a road, usually consisting of a raised margin with grass, trees, or shrubs. For example, "We stopped our car at the roadside, and enjoyed an amazing view of the surrounding hills."
He also suggested that a key element of the UK contribution would be passing on the experience gained during previous operations in Iraq – the last British troops to withdraw from the country left as recently as May 2011 – and also lessons learned during the UK military's 13-year war with the Taliban in Afghanistan where troops dealt routinely with roadside bombs and other explosive devices.
Bush's second line of attack on Iran in his Reno speech was that it was backing Shia militant factions in Iraq by training their activists, and equipping them with arms, including sophisticated roadside bombs.
For example, Greek peach farmers face ruin as their produce rots at the roadside.
"Whatever they are doing is nothing to do with God," said Ruth Joseph, a tailor, who had popped in to visit her sister who worked at a roadside restaurant.
At 10am this morning all was quiet at the park, until a young man in red baseball cap sprinted along Elm Street and attempted to pull down several candidates' roadside signs, an unfortunate security official puffing in his wake.
She remembers the roadside bombs that began in 2009, because one of her neighbours died in one.
We ate whatever we could buy, whatever we could cook in two saucepans on an open fire (pasta, stews, curries, rice), bought eggs, fresh fruit and vegetables by the roadside, and stocked up on dry goods in the towns and cities.
Other concepts include highway roadside lights resembling white flowers that automatically turn themselves on as a car approaches.
The corniche from Sorrento to Salerno is described by Michelin as the finest in Europe, but when we drove along it to our next destination I was too busy negotiating the blind hairpin bends, traffic jams and anarchic roadside parking to appreciate the scenery.
Back then, not only did this involve excruciating hours by the roadside, it was also downright dangerous, with risks ranging from crotch lunges – of which I recall a few – all the way to serial killers.
In particular, it will mean dealing with car and truck bombs and roadside devices, as well as basic infantry skills.
