road construction
Street repair work
Road construction is the building or repairing of roads, or an area where such work is underway.
The phrase most often appears on signs warning drivers of delays: Expect delays—road construction ahead.
It can also describe the industry: He's worked in road construction for twenty years.
- asphaltPetroleum-based paving material
- pavingLaying hard ground cover
- blacktopDark paving material
- pavementHard road covering
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
freshly paved · grading · bitumen · flaggers · detour ahead · lane closure · civil engineering · concrete · milling machine · excavator · striping · surveying · drainage systems · resurfacing · erosion control · gravel · right-of-way · compacting
- infrastructurehighways, railway expansion, power grid, seaports, water supply
- Road Travelhighway, interstate, freeway, car, turnpike
- transportation issuestraffic congestion, traffic jams, congestion, gridlock, traffic safety
- transport policyhighway funding, congestion pricing, fuel taxes, infrastructure funding, highway tolls
- military engineeringengineers, combat engineer, combat engineers, sappers, sapper
- ancient engineeringarches, aqueducts, bridges, masonry, foundations
road, railroad, construct, roads, construction, roadway, roadblock, crossroads, roadblocks