Intersection (road)
An intersection is where two or more roads come together. Intersections are also known as junctions. At an intersection, there can be stop signs on one or both sides of the intersection. There can also be a traffic light.
Kinds of intersections
There are two major types of intersections.
- 3-way intersection
- Also called a T intersection, 3-way intersections make a T-like shape.
- 4-way intersection
- 4-way intersections make a cross- or +-like shape.
Intersection (road) Media
- Площадь Тверская Застава (вид сверху).jpg
Tverskaya Zastava Square in Moscow, Russia
- Makati intersection.jpg
A photo of the intersection of Ayala Avenue and Buendia Avenue in Makati City, taken from somewhere up in Tower 1 of The Columns.
- Bonneuil 16 Carrefour Bellevue 2012.jpg
Crossroad in Grande Champagne, Charente, France.
- Fork in the road.jpg
Fork in the road Y-junction
- Veterans Memorial Parkway, London, Ontario.jpg
Intersection along the Veterans Memorial Parkway at Hamilton Road, an at-grade expressway in London, Ontario, featuring 'slot left-turn lanes'
- 1 times square night 2013.jpg
Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a major cultural venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The pedestrian intersection also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 60 million.
- Crossroads sign in Clarksdale, Mississippi.jpg
Famous intersection of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi sung about by Robert Johnson
