Meaning & use
pedestrian lane
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Meaning
nouncountable
A marked strip of a road, bridge or path reserved for people walking, kept apart from vehicles.
Grammar: Countable: a pedestrian lane, two pedestrian lanes.
Patterns
- pedestrian lane on something
- walk in the pedestrian lane
Cyclists must stay out of the pedestrian lane on the bridge.
The city painted a new pedestrian lane beside the school.
Please keep to the pedestrian lane while the road is under repair.
Word forms
| plural | pedestrian lanes |
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Common combinations
- marked pedestrian lane
- A marked pedestrian lane runs along the harbor.
- walk in the pedestrian lane
- Visitors are asked to walk in the pedestrian lane.
- dedicated pedestrian lane
- A dedicated pedestrian lane makes the tunnel safer.
- widen the pedestrian lane
- Engineers plan to widen the pedestrian lane on the bridge.
- block the pedestrian lane
- Delivery trucks often block the pedestrian lane.
Synonyms and how they differ
- footpath
- A footpath is a separate path, whereas a pedestrian lane is a lane sharing space with traffic.
- sidewalk
- A sidewalk is a raised path beside a road, while a pedestrian lane may only be painted markings.
- walkway
- Walkway is general and may be anywhere, while pedestrian lane belongs to a road or traffic area.
Opposites
Word family
- pedestrian noun
- a person who is walking
- pedestrian adjective
- relating to walking, or dull
- pedestrianize verb
- to close a street to vehicles
- lane noun
- a narrow strip for traffic or people
Commonly confused: pedestrian lane or pedestrian crossing?
pedestrian lane vs pedestrian crossing
A pedestrian crossing lets people cross a road, whereas a pedestrian lane runs alongside it.
Practice
The bridge has two traffic lanes and one ______ marked in white paint for people on foot.
Choose one answer.
A strip reserved for people on foot is a pedestrian lane. A bicycle path would be for cyclists.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “pedestrian lane”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.