road work
Street maintenance project
Road work is construction or maintenance on streets and highways—repaving, filling potholes, installing utilities.
The term typically appears on warning signs: Expect delays due to road work ahead.
In boxing and running, road work means training by running on roads: The fighter does five miles of road work every morning.
- detourAlternate path around obstruction
- pavementHard road covering
- flaggersPeople directing traffic
- jackhammerPower tool for breaking concrete
- hard hatProtective headgear for worksites
construction · traffic cone · maintenance · asphalt · barricades · lane closure · steamroller · resurfacing · closure · striping · bypass · milling machine · heavy machinery · warning signs · speed limit · excavation · dump trucks · paving
- manual laborfarming, lifting, carrying, shoveling, loading
- driving hazardspotholes, black ice, debris, blind spots, sharp curves
- outdoor constructionroofing, driveway paving, sidewalk repair, landscaping, fence building
- outdoor worklandscaping, roofing, construction, paving, groundskeeping
- road closuresdetour, barricade, lane closure, tunnel closure, construction
- travel conditionstraffic, delays, congestion, heavy traffic, light traffic