Wednesday, February 22, 2017

what all those types of definers mean, that follow the name of the road.

A road has no special qualifiers. It connects point a to point b.
A street connects buildings together, usually in a city, usually east to west, opposite of avenue.
An avenue runs north south. Avenues and streets may be used interchangeably for directions, usually has median
A boulevard is a street with trees down the middle or on both sides
A lane is a narrow street usually lacking a median.
A drive is a private, winding road
a court usually ends in a cul de sac or similar little loop
place is similar to a court, or close, usually a short skinny dead end road, with or without cul de sac, sometimes p shaped
bay is a small road where both ends link to the same connecting road
a trail is usually in or near a wooded area
a highway is a major public road, usually connecting multiple cities
a motorway is similar to a highway, no pedestrian or animal traffic allowed
an interstate is a highway system connecting usually connecting multiple states, except Hawaii
a turnpike is part of a highway, and usually has a toll, often located close to a city or commercial are
a freeway is part of a highway with 2 or more lanes on each side, no tolls, sometimes termed expressway, no intersections or cross streets.
a parkway is a major public road, usually decorated, sometimes part of a highway, has traffic lights.
a causeway combines roads and bridges, usually to cross a body of water
circuit and speedway are used interchangeably, usually refers to a racing course,

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4 comments:

  1. In the county where I grew up, in Southeast Michigan, most of the North-South roads are called highways and the East-West are roads. I think some of the highways are even dirt roads. The neighboring counties just call them roads.

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    1. No way... you grew up in the SE of lower Michigan? I spent 1974-77 in Plainwell and Otsego! Little towns just north of Kalamazoo

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  2. I grew up west of Ann Arbor, in a little town called Clinton, on US-12. We moved there in 1978 when my dad got a job at Hydramatic in Willow Run as an engineer. He also worked at the GM Proving Grounds in Milford.

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    1. I'll be darned. Small town Michigan was pretty mellow in the 60s and 70s

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