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adj. - Having a median strip or island between rows of traffic moving in opposite directions.

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  • We were driving a dual-lane avenida yesterday, towards the Muelles Las Garzas and Los Sauces, when we came upon an imposing, abandoned two-storey bulding, like a disused...
  • From what I heard recently, the planned Silvertown Link, if it gets built, will appear alongside the Blackwall Tunnel approach... so it will make the existing dual-lane...
  • A succession of vehicles Dopplered past, whooshing down the dual-lane blacktop, kicking up dust and blossoms.
  • Consider this lovely revenue-generation: dual-lane both ways with a central island, no junctions and traffic lights a couple of hundred meters apart.
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