Roadbed \Road"bed`\, n. In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.
State engineers have made a preliminary finding that it was failure of the concrete columns, wrenched and separated from the double-decker roadbed, that was responsible for the collapse.
The corporations that built turnpikes smoothed out grades, bridged streams, and applied crushed stone to the roadbed in the form of a rounded crown in order to shed water.
A buried cable is the heart of the new system, most of it along a narrow, dead-end roadbed, the only way _ other than the river _ in and out of the 40-mile canyon.
Six were destroyed, one had major damage and four had minor damage inflicted by the train, flying dirt and rocks from the roadbed and the potash, a mineral used in making fertilizer and soap.