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rat run:

Definitions:

  1. # A small road that people venture down when they want to sneak off the motorway and take a short cut.

Examples:

  1. indicates that the problem in Brookside is that it is used as a cut-through ( rat run ) . By far the majority of motor vehicles using this narrow street are not
  2. about speeding vehicles , including the delivery lorries and the road being used as a rat run . John stressed that everyone with views on the proposals should write to the Planning
  3. a beautiful , tiny and completely unspoilt village in Northamptonshire which is used as a rat run between our local town and a much larger city . I have absolutely no objection
  4. of cycle lanes . Many motorists already use this section of road as a ' rat run ' when the bypass is congested , and a lower speed limit together with cycle
  5. and put in place mechanisms to overcome the potential problems of diversion , where HGVs rat run through villages and along country lanes in order to avoid payment . Contact : Paul

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