The phrase "new motorway" refers to a recently built road specifically designed for high-speed traffic, usually connecting one city or region to another. Full definition
We lose # 7bn a year because of congestion on our roads - and yet the last administration only built around twenty - five miles of new motorway... (politics.co.uk)
An aide to former Chancellor George Osborne said: «There are going to be some shiny new motorways, schools and hospitals in Northern Ireland,» — reflecting the price of support. (independent.co.uk)
Now able to draw down astonishing material from online sources, Leckey can paste together footage from NASA's early failed attempts to launch inflatable media satellites in space — the technology that would eventually lead to our hyper - connected reality — with grainy colour film of crazily empty new motorways and snatches of Harold Wilson's famous 1963 speech in which he described a Britain being forged in «the white heat of the technological revolution». (contemporaryartsociety.org)