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Learned several new things today about roads, streets, avenues and boulevards.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23588
The term street, then, should be specifically applied to urban roadways. Streets connect people for interaction, while roads connect towns and cities for travel.
In the real world, though, these distinctions arent always made.
As cities grow, roads can become urbanized and serve the purposes of streets without having their names changed. Some cities and towns may be planned with naming systems that designate roadways one thing or another without regard to their function. Other roadways serve different purposes along different parts of their length and get different designations accordingly. Pennsylvania Route 611 is a major state highway that runs from South Philadelphia north to Coolbaugh Township in the Poconos. Within Philadelphia, 611 is Broad Street, where youll find homes, businesses, street life and, on New Years Day, Mummers urinating everywhere. At the northern end of Philadelphia, PA 611 leaves Broad Street and becomes Old York Road, a historic road that connected Philadelphia to New York City. As it continues north, it also becomes Easton Road, Delaware Drive, and Fox Town Hill Road along certain stretches.
Arkansas Granny
(31,477 posts)A road was out in the country with no sidewalks.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)A road was a riding path between destinations, a street was literally a straight route, typically a Roman road (think Watling Street and Ermine Street). Because Roman roads were paved, street also came to mean a paved way.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Is a narrow road or street usually lacking a shoulder or a median."
I guess that means a lane has no sidewalks. ????
elleng
(129,800 posts)I do appreciate the explanation above: roads between places/towns, streets within them, lined with houses/buildings.
trof
(54,255 posts)There are two other "Drives", and one "Lane" in our neighborhood.
Fancy schmancy.
All paved.
No sidewalks, curbs, or gutters.
But we do have streetlights.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,269 posts)but the more I stare at it, the more it looks like a "Street".
It has all those "Street" things. Pavement, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewer grates.
And right now, it's covered with snow.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Avenues, boulevards, and drives?
they're making me crazy...
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)I don't want to be accused of posting more than 4 paragraphs.
UTUSN
(70,435 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,815 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)in that "expressway" includes pay-to-use motorways like turnpikes, while "freeway" implies that no toll is charged.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)A Court and a Circle?
A Cul-de-Sac and a Dead End?
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)that is lined with trees. A cul-de-sac has a round area at the end where you can turn a car around without backing up, while a getting out of a dead-end usually requires backing up.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,815 posts)In NY, we have expressways, parkways, and a thruway.
They're all highways to me!
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)Our street/road/lane name is in Spanish.