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What is another word for overpasses?

Pronunciation: [ˌə͡ʊvəpˈasɪz] (IPA)

Overpasses are structures built to allow traffic to pass over obstacles such as highways, railways, or rivers. There are various synonyms for the word 'overpasses', which include flyovers, elevated roads, viaducts, skyways, and bridges. Flyovers are specifically designed structures that allow traffic to pass over other roads or railway lines. Elevated roads are similar in construction to flyovers but, in general, are wider and longer. Viaducts are elevated structures built over valleys, gorges, or other depressions in the landscape. Skyways are found in urban areas and are pedestrian walkways that connect buildings and other structures above street level. Lastly, bridges are structures built over bodies of water or other large spans and generally have a longer length than other synonyms of overpasses.
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  • Janeway Smithson was a little, insane, grey-haired bantam rooster of a man. He loaded five or six of us in one cab, and we rolled down to the bed of the L.A. River. Now in those days the L.A. River was a fake - there was no water, just a wide, flat, dry cement runway. The bums lived down there by the hundreds in little cement alcoves under the bridges and overpasses. Some of them even had potted plants in front of their places. All they needed to live like kings was canned heat (Sterno) and what they picked out of the nearby garbage dump. They were tan and relaxed and most of them looked a hell of a lot healthier than the average Los Angeles business man. Those guys down there had no problems with women, income tax, landlords, burial expenses, dentists, time payments, car repairs, or with climbing into a voting booth and pulling the curtain closed.
    Charles Bukowski

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