Carriageway


a road or lane of a road for use by automobiles.
Historical Examples

North went down the carriageway, and Herbert reëntered the house.
The Just and the Unjust Vaughan Kester

A mile away was a wooden box-bridge with a carriageway on one side and the single track on the other.
Harper’s Round Table, July 2, 1895 Various

The carriageway was kept clear by mild policemen who now and then allowed one of the crowd to cross it.
The March Family Trilogy, Complete William Dean Howells

The width of the carriageway is 20 feet, and footway five feet.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Various

“Barthorpe Herapath turned into the carriageway and went into the office,” continued Burchill.
The Herapath Property J. S. Fletcher

noun
(Brit) the part of a road along which traffic passes in a single line moving in one direction only: a dual carriageway

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