Service Roads
I'd like to nail down a clear definition of Service Roads to update the wiki with.
My definition is:
A service road connects to or parallels a high-volume road and provides access to businesses and residences which themselves do not have direct access to that high-volume road. Those businesses and residences have addresses on the high-volume road and therefore the service road has the same name as the high-volume road.
The high-volume road may have a continuous frontage road or the high-volume road may have been re-aligned leaving segments of the old alignment in place to serve local businesses and residences.
In the frontage road case, if the road is designed to carry significant volumes of traffic in addition to providing access to local addresses, a classification other than service road may be appropriate.
Some examples of Service Roads:
Old alignment - S. Illinois Ave, Oak Ridge, TN
Frontage road - Van Wyck Expressway, Queens, NY
Old alignment - McCarter Hwy, Newark, NJ
Some examples of NOT service roads:
Frontage is high volume also - North Freeway (I-45), Houston, TX
Discussion? Agreement? Disagreement? Caveats? More examples?
My definition is:
A service road connects to or parallels a high-volume road and provides access to businesses and residences which themselves do not have direct access to that high-volume road. Those businesses and residences have addresses on the high-volume road and therefore the service road has the same name as the high-volume road.
The high-volume road may have a continuous frontage road or the high-volume road may have been re-aligned leaving segments of the old alignment in place to serve local businesses and residences.
In the frontage road case, if the road is designed to carry significant volumes of traffic in addition to providing access to local addresses, a classification other than service road may be appropriate.
Some examples of Service Roads:
Old alignment - S. Illinois Ave, Oak Ridge, TN
Frontage road - Van Wyck Expressway, Queens, NY
Old alignment - McCarter Hwy, Newark, NJ
Some examples of NOT service roads:
Frontage is high volume also - North Freeway (I-45), Houston, TX
Discussion? Agreement? Disagreement? Caveats? More examples?
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