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traffic island
noun
- a raised or marked-off area between lanes of a roadway, used by pedestrians to get out of the flow of traffic, as a place for traffic signals, for separating lanes, etc.
traffic island
noun
- a raised area in the middle of a road, designed as a guide for traffic and to provide a stopping place for pedestrians
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Origin of traffic island1
Example Sentences
Ms Knowles said there was a traffic island at the spot and people were walking across the road with wheelie bins while traffic was trying to manoeuvre around them.
With the old stadium headed for demolition, it was placed on a grassy traffic island at the foot of a Manhattan exit ramp — a lonely greeter, to a mostly empty island.
A descendent of Lord Byron wants a statue of the poet moved from a traffic island in central London.
As we neared the end of the tour, we stopped through Verdi Square, the irregularly shaped traffic island named for the Italian opera composer.
The clandestine Epstein Barr virus - a terrible fatiguing condition for an endurance athlete to suffer - preceded several crashes, most notably a huge somersault after colliding with a traffic island in Italy.
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