roadworks BrE
road works , also: road work AmE

In general, as little road work as possible was done.

I pointed at the house behind which the road work was going on.

The road work started here and is scheduled to complete by 2010.

Often the walls were sold to be crushed for road work.

However, it was delayed by design problems and road work.

These were done to provide traffic relief during road work.

"But if you get some of them in on the road work for the county?"

But in the war years, road work related to military efforts took precedence.

In 1918, the prison did not assign any men for road work.

There will already be a major disruption to the community during this road work, which is expected to take about two years.