median strip
noun
: a paved or planted strip dividing a highway into lanes according to direction of travel
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That plan also calls for bus lanes that run next to the street's median strip to reduce conflicts with cars.
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Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Norma and David had converted the median strip beyond their sidewalk into a native-plant repository—Christmas fern, aster, monarda, bergamot.
—Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
Hardesty said motorists may not understand that traffic traveling in both directions is required to stop when a school bus is displaying a stop arm, unless the highway is divided by a physical barrier, such as a median strip.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
That stretch now has four lanes for cars, two parking lanes, two unprotected bike lanes and a median strip.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
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Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Norma and David had converted the median strip beyond their sidewalk into a native-plant repository—Christmas fern, aster, monarda, bergamot.
—Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
Hardesty said motorists may not understand that traffic traveling in both directions is required to stop when a school bus is displaying a stop arm, unless the highway is divided by a physical barrier, such as a median strip.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
That stretch now has four lanes for cars, two parking lanes, two unprotected bike lanes and a median strip.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Median strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/median%20strip. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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