local road
Not a highway
A local road is a street designed primarily to provide access to properties rather than to move traffic between destinations.
Local roads have low speed limits and connect homes and businesses to larger collector roads and highways.
The term appears in traffic engineering and municipal planning: Take the local road if you want to avoid the highway.
- asphaltPetroleum-based paving material
- cul-de-sacStreet closed at end
- laneDesignated travel strip
- curbRaised road margin
- speed bumpTraffic-calming raised strip
traffic calming · shoulder · commuter route · pothole · pavement · dead end · stop · backroad · municipality · signage · neighborhood · sidewalk · front yard · school zones · walkability · pedestrian crossing · driveway · bike lane
- road typesscenic route, dirt roads, back roads, country roads, gravel roads
- roadshighway, highways, freeway, roads, freeways
- street typesboulevard, cul-de-sac, dead-end, avenue, alley
local roadinterstate
Between political regions
highway · freeway · motorway · arterial road · expressway
local roadinterstate highway
Major road between states
national highway · state highway · Route 66 · Pan-American Highway · Autobahn
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