median strip

noun

|Updated on: 18 Jun 2018

Definition of median strip

: a paved or planted strip dividing a highway into lanes according to direction of travel

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Recent Examples of median strip from the Web

The woman, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, emerged at night from planted shrubbery on a divided highway median strip and into traffic.

— russ mitchell, latimes.com, "Uber chose to disable emergency braking system before fatal Arizona robot car crash, safety officials say," 24 May 2018
The bike lanes and the median strip (also painted on and now difficult to see) were added.

— christopher bonanos, Daily Intelligencer, "What New York Should Learn From the Park Slope Crash That Killed Two Children," 30 Mar. 2018
In the video, the victim, Elaine Herzberg, 49, appears to be illegally jaywalking from a median strip across two lanes of traffic on a dark road.

— russ mitchell, latimes.com, "Experts say video of Uber's self-driving car killing a pedestrian suggests its technology may have failed," 22 Mar. 2018
The man’s vehicle rolled over onto the median strip north of exit 14 just before 8 p.m., a State Police spokesman said.

— maddie kilgannon, BostonGlobe.com, "Man seriously injured after vehicle rolls over in Hingham," 11 Mar. 2018
Irrigation of median strips by cities and counties.

— kurtis alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, "California, drying out again, weighs permanent ban on wasting water," 20 Feb. 2018
She also is charged with felony vandalism for damaging a median strip in trying to cross into oncoming traffic, Bridgett said.

— CBS News, "California woman charged with killing driver in suicide attempt," 2 Feb. 2018
On sidewalks, median strips and amid the brick dust, mud and rubble of the 38 buildings that collapsed in Mexico’s 7.1 earthquake, impromptu memorials to victims and rescuers have sprung up, as the capital begins to come to terms with its losses.

— Washington Post, "Where buildings fell to quake, memorials rise in Mexico City," 30 Sep. 2017

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