ADJECTIVE
- (of roads) having a single lane for traffic in both directions; when vehicles meet one must pull off the road to let the other pass
How To Use single-lane In A Sentence
- A single-lane carriageway will be carried over the River Nadder and its flood plain on a viaduct.
- The road over Wolf Creek Pass was originally a single-lane road with short widened sections for turnouts to allow for passing.
- This happened on a straight, single-lane gravel road with a grass verge.
- This meant a single-lane contraflow had to be introduced in both directions.
- But then again, maybe that's realistic - you just can't fit a column of 10 tanks down the average single-lane dirt road.
- This autumn's crippling congestion on the dual carriageway and across the city centre has largely been caused by the single-lane contraflow bottleneck at Copmanthorpe.
- Contraflows and single-lane traffic have caused major tailbacks since the work to build an underpass at Copmathorpe began last summer, with severe congestion again at the weekend.
- The restrictions, sometimes accompanied by single-lane contraflows, have caused lengthy tailbacks at busy times.