The side drains are provided on both sides of the roadway, when the road is

Related MCQs

• The maximum number of vehicles that can pass a given point on a lane or a roadway during one hour under the prevailing roadway and traffic conditions, is known as
• When the rainfall is more, flatter gradients should be provided in the side drains and the road.
• A wall constructed to retain the earth from slippage on the hill side of the roadway is called
• The thickness of the parapet wall, on the valley side of the roadway, is usually kept as
• A breast wall is usually constructed on the hill side of the roadway.
• The parapet walls are usually required on the valley side of the roadway, in order to
• The size of a stone used on a road must be in due proportion to the space occupied by a wheel of ordinary dimensions on a smooth level surface. This point of contact will be found to be longitudinally about 25 mm and every piece of stone put into a road which exceeds 25 mm in any of its dimensions is mischievous. This statement is according to Macadam.
• The distance, measured along the centre line of a road, over which a driver can see the opposite object on the road surface, is called
• A camber of 1 in 30 means that for a 30 m wide road, the crown of the road will be
• The longest distance at which a driver, whose line of sight is 1.2 m above the road surface, can see the top of an object 10 cm high on the surface of road, is called