laner
nounEtymology From lane + -er (measurement suffix).
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In compounds A highway with a specified number of lanes.
- The eight-laner is traversed by an estimated 80,000 vehicles, as many as 1 million pedestrians – and countless cows each day.2011 December 2, Beth Collins, “10 record-breaking bridges”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2025:
- Get a load of where our heads are at in the USA as 2012 arrives on the scene. Family Fun Walk on a nine-laner, anyone?2012 January 6, James Kunstler, “Eyesore of the Month - January 2012”, in Kunstler, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2024:
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- Before the state began its transformation then, we wrote a column criticizing Commissioner Van Ten Eyck’s idea of the tearing down the four-laner after completing the six-laner.2012 February 28, Lou Powsner, “Lou: The Gowanus Expressway was a mistake”, in Brooklyn Paper, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2025:
- Let's begin with the most confounding of the local roads - U.S. Highway 158, aka The Bypass, Croatan Highway, The Big Road, through Nags Head, KDH and Kitty Hawk. It's a five-laner, two lanes running in opposite directions with a center lane up the middle, and it's that center lane that gets people.2012 June 6, Molly Harrison, “Rules of the Road”, in Outer Banks This Week, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024:
- Voted one of the ten “Worst Streets in America” by the Congress for the New Urbanism, Buford Highway can be described as “a seven-laner flanked by low-income garden apartments, ‘with no sidealks^([sic]) and two miles between traffic lights'” (Jeff Speck). Speck noted that “the biggest risks that people faced were coming from the built environment”.2015 April 23, Tommy Connor, David Joannides, Claire Yang, “Buford Highway”, in ScholarBlogs, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2024:
- Wood said the city took that idea from Union Street, which it had converted to a three-laner between Dragoon Trail and downtown after the city took over that road from the state. In 1999, the state moved the Indiana 331 designation from Union, Church and Main streets to Capital.2018 September 5, Joseph Dits, “Lincoln Way to be repaved as 3 lanes to calm traffic in Mishawaka”, in South Bend Tribune, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2024: