ROAD TRAVEL
TRAFFIC, and ROAD TRAVEL
Choose the correct answer.
In the UK, what is the name of the fastest highway?
- a motorway
- a super-highway
- a country lane
What do you call a bridge that goes over a busy area of a city?
- a flypast
- an overshoot
- a flyover
What's the name of the emergency lane on the left-hand side of a motorway?
- the layby
- the hard shoulder
- the pull-over
What's the name of a short paved area on a country road where vehicles can pull in to let other vehicles pass?
- a pull-over
- a pull-in
- a passing place
What's the name of a very narrow road which is only wide enough for one vehicle at a time to pass in either direction?
- a single-track road
- a single-lane road
- a one-lane road
What the name of a tunnel that takes traffic under a busy part of a city?
- an undershoot
- an underpass
- a pass-below
What the name of the place where two roads cross?
- a crossroad
- a crossstreet
- a crossroads
What's the name of a circle in the middle of a crossroads, which traffic has to go round?
- a roundabout
- a roundrun
- a roundpass
What's the name of the 3 lights (red, amber, green) that indicate whether a driver has to stop or may continue?
- a traffic-lights
- a traffics-light
- a traffic-lite
Who has priority on a roundabout in the UK?
- The vehicle already going round the roundabout?
- The vehicle coming onto the roundabout?
- There is no priority - it's just pot-luck!