It means to travel or to leave a place, as suggested in this song, "Hit the Road."

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Hundreds of thousands of people traveled this Mother Road during the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

"And now,with this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

"And if we go down that road, we are going to make this country less safe.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"We are not asking anyone to achieve full normalization at this time, we recognize that that will come further down the road in this process."

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"This is really designed to get us off the road network, to be able to go cross-country, to go the places that up-armored HUMVEEs go, not be stuck to the road network, which makes us predictable,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"The good news from today is that one, he plans to return,two, he could return as early as this year, and three, he clearly has taken the first very visible step in the road to that return.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19