roadway

noun

Etymology: From Middle English *rodeway, *radewey (attested in radewey-stile (literally “roadway-stile”)), equivalent to road + way; road had the early sense of "riding" when the compound was formed, thus originally "a way for riding on".

1. A way used as a road.

   “On the south side of the two running lines is a second goods store, reached by a roadway along the south side of the station. This roadway also acts as a terminus for all provincial bus services from Limerick.”

   “It’s a dip of fewer than 150 deaths from highs reached in 2021, when the agency recorded the largest quarterly spike in its history of tracking roadway fatalities.”

2. The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
3. The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.