Hello, fellow editors. I have created this page in the hopes of providing a general overview of freeways/highways. I named it Highways and created a redirect page for Freeways. I am, however, a little concerned about colloquial designations, particularly because of my ignorance as to what folks across the pond call what we yanks refer to as freeways. In general, as I understand it, we use freeway to designate a heavily traveled, multiple-lane, raised roadway, while highway usually refers to a slightly less heavily used, not necessarily raised, and not necessarily multiple-lane roadway that connects distant points. We do, however, tend to use highway as a broad categorization for both types. If anyone has some good suggestions on naming, etc., I would love to hear them. Otherwise, if everyone is fine with Highways, we'll leave it at that. Happy editing! EganioTalk 22:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
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