motorway

noun

1. (Ireland, New-South-Wales, New-Zealand, UK)A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.

   “All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.”

   “Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20 miles long running out from Glenrose, the county seat of Somervell County, has been completed.”

   “It is presumed that in the working out of the program the motor trucks will automatically have the major use of the local low-speed highways paralleling the motorway.”

   “In 1959, Ernest Marples became the new Minister of Transport. His business career had been as a road builder and he saw the future in a network of motorways, whereas he believed there was serious overcapacity in the railway network.”

   “One national agency is responsible for developing and maintaining the national motorway system, which typically is a small fraction of the entire roadway network. (page 8)”

2. (US)A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.

   “In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.”

   “The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.”