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Public works crews are focusing on salting main and secondary roads, as plowing ice is ineffective.—Lucas Finton, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 27 Jan. 2026 Up in Wake County, main and secondary roads also remained covered with the white stuff, the latest updates showed.—Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2026 But building those secondary roads branching down to the city streets and lanes that serve individual homes, that’s the part still to be delivered.—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026 Travel Sunday morning will be messy and slippery, especially on untreated surfaces and on secondary roads.—Steven Sosna, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for secondary road