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UK Cyclists have been directed to former walkways in order to improve the directness of their journeys.
Integration with vehicular traffic would be acceptable, provided that directness of route was in no way compromised.

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directness | American Dictionary

directness
noun[ U ]
us/dəˈrekt·nəs, dɑɪ-/
a very honest way of saying what you mean

Examples of directness

directness
That personal vocal directness is now returning via the microphone.
Directness of communication is not to be confused with simplicity of message.
Such lack of directness, endemic to the process, is a poor basis for hiring residents.
Of loving the directness of their language, of their saying exactly and deliberately what they mean.
They have been seen as an essential part of successful recipes for generating and sustaining the effect of 'directness'.
They call on a matter of fact directness that seeks only to remove manual drudgery.
In light of the directness of this mapping, the amplitude mapping is not so simple.
I was struck by the directness and the clarity of the prose; the sharp insights and fascinating historical detail.
The space of the auditorium succeeds because of the almost primitive directness with which the intention is translated into form.
The way the mechanisms supporting these features are related to the design goal of directness is also discussed.
The second aspect of directness is a feeling of direct engagement : 'the feeling that one is directly manipulating the objects of interest'.
Clarity and directness of message are self-evident throughout.
This confusion of surface gives emphasis to form, but complicates the directness of experience.
Actually, both directness and indirectness are relative concepts rather than absolute ones.
Instead, the reader's sense is above all one of urgency and compression and unusual directness.
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