road diet

road diet
 n.β€” Β«The Road Diet. “Road dieting” is a new term applied to “skinnying up” patients (streets) into leaner, more productive members of society.Β» β€”by Dan Burden, Peter Lagerwey Road Diets: Fixing the Big Roads , 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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