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  • noun Plural form of beltway.

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Examples

  • The plan would imprint a wheel atop the Hub: concentric beltways, an outer and an inner, connected along key corridors by expressways radiating from the core.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • The plan would imprint a wheel atop the Hub: concentric beltways, an outer and an inner, connected along key corridors by expressways radiating from the core.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • The plan would imprint a wheel atop the Hub: concentric beltways, an outer and an inner, connected along key corridors by expressways radiating from the core.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • The withdrawal of combat forces from urban areas will allow U.S. forces to focus on beltways outside cities to limit the movement of insurgents, and on border areas, Gen. Lanza said.

    Explosion in Baghdad Kills Dozens, Days Before U.S. Pullout 2009

  • By the by since H.G.Wells wrote, beltways have been designed which would be safe for getting on and off.

    Why lefty types should support privatised roads Alix Mortimer 2009

  • Thanks to a system devised in 1957 by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the Bureau of Public Roads, major interstate routes have one - or two-digit numbers, while connecting routes and city beltways have three digits.

    ASK TIP SHEET 2008

  • McCain has long railed against the beltways big spenders.

    CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008 2008

  • A former K-Mart or Wal-Mart is a great place to house a transit hub-a center where retail, office, and transportation services converge, to better serve the nexus of urban and suburban commuters who are eager for alternatives to congested highways and urban beltways.

    Thinking Inside the Box, For a Change 2008

  • But in the regions where Americans actually want to live. they are swarming into the countryside, covering whole counties with "edge cities" flung outward from the beltways as if by centrifugal force.

    15 Ways To Fix The Suburbs 2008

  • He also understood the concept of a “beltway bubble” long before there were even paved roads, much less interstate highway beltways.

    Betraying Thomas Jefferson 2007

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