Poll
Question:
What do you call the small road parallel to the main road?
Option 1: Frontage Road
votes: 61
Option 2: Service Road
votes: 14
Option 3: Access Road
votes: 0
Option 4: Feeder
votes: 1
Option 5: Other (specify)
votes: 6
I would like to know, what do you call the smaller road parallel to the main road?
I call it a Frontage Road.
Frontage road.
Even in Texas, where they supposedly call them feeder roads, the highway signs say (https://goo.gl/maps/wxLw9ENJyLHaG2828) 'Frontage Road'.
I call them frontage roads, though "service road" is also used around here.
In Missouri, they're signed as "outer roads".
Possibly an earlier alignment until determined otherwise.
Quote from: Scott5114 on April 29, 2022, 04:04:08 PM
In Missouri, they're signed as "outer roads".
I refer to them as outer roads for this reason. On the New York Times's accent test, the following options are given:
-frontage road
-service road
-access road
-feeder road
-gateway
"Outer Road" is not listed, so I select "other" as my answer. The map for this answer is almost entirely blue, except for Missouri:
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Quote from: ozarkman417 on April 29, 2022, 04:13:00 PM
"Outer Road" is not listed, so I select "other" as my answer.
The way to do that is to vote in the poll.
Quote from: kphoger on April 29, 2022, 04:01:25 PM
Frontage road.
Even in Texas, where they supposedly call them feeder roads, the highway signs say (https://goo.gl/maps/wxLw9ENJyLHaG2828) 'Frontage Road'.
Feeder road is a Houston-specific term, and it's the one I use. Dallas and San Antonio (as well as most of the rest of Texas) don't officially use the term. From the same NYT quiz
ozarkman417 quoted:
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I would consider a feeder to be a one-way road adjacent to the freeway. I reserve frontage road to mean two-way roads adjacent to the freeway.
Frontage Road is the most common in Arizona and is the term officially used by ADOT, although transplants from other regions may use other terms. I have heard Access Road here before, but never Service Road or Feeder.
Quote from: CoreySamson on April 29, 2022, 04:30:07 PM
Feeder road is a Houston-specific term, and it's the one I use. Dallas and San Antonio (as well as most of the rest of Texas) don't officially use the term. From the same NYT quiz ozarkman417 quoted:
From what I understand, most of Texas calls them Frontage Roads, with Feeder being used in the Houston area, Service Road in the DFW area, and Access Road in the San Antonio area.
I call them voie de service. :bigass:
Quote from: LilianaUwU on April 29, 2022, 06:04:46 PM
I call them voie de service. :bigass:
so... service road.
Service Drive if it has ramps to/from the freeway. Frontage Road if it does not.
Baby road (do do do do do do)
In the Detroit area, they're "service drives"
They're rare around here, but the one on NY 104 is "service road (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2150903,-77.4363259,571m/data=!3m1!1e3)".
I'd say a mixture between Service Road and Frontage Road.
I've always associated the "feeder road" description with the horrifying texas style of frontage road. Those are a mess.
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Small road parallels main road
Doo-dah, doo-dah.
In Puerto Rico, they are called "Calle Marginal".
Not in Spain, where they are called vÃa de servicio. Thus, "service road".
I call them "Frontage Road", since that's what they are generally referred to as in Illinois and Wisconsin.
In a somewhat better universe, "feeder road" would be the standard term for the highest and best type of frontage road: one way, with carefully designed on- and offramp junctions and Texas U-turns. That'd be asking a lot of the non-roadgeek public, though.
Quote from: Pink Jazz on April 29, 2022, 05:20:36 PM
From what I understand, most of Texas calls them Frontage Roads, with Feeder being used in the Houston area, Service Road in the DFW area, and Access Road in the San Antonio area.
"Most of Texas" lives in one of the three areas for which you made exceptions.
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To me they're frontage roads, as that's how they are signed where I grew up (Utah).
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To me they're frontage roads, as that's how they are signed where I grew up (Utah).
i have only ever really lived in the red areas and yeah - to me they have always been 'frontage roads'.
i see 'outer road' all the time on missouri's maps although i am unsure if that's colloquially correct for the region.
~cat
Service Drive
Red/yellow/green/blue is not the way to color that type of map, since it gives no information about second preferences. With four choices and one restriction (must add up to 100%), there are three degrees of freedom, which means the entire color space can be used. For example, one option is red, one is green, one is blue, and one contributes no color. This will allow exactly what percentages of all four options were chosen just by looking at the color.
I voted "other" because "nothing" wasn't an option. We don't generally have those here.
Quote from: NE2 on April 29, 2022, 07:29:38 PM
Baby road (do do do do do do)
https://youtu.be/hSDqYypxfz8
They are officially "Frontage Roads" in Nevada DOT's log of state-maintained highways, and that's the term I have always used.
Quote from: Pink Jazz on April 30, 2022, 12:08:02 AM
In Puerto Rico, they are called "Calle Marginal".
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on April 30, 2022, 11:32:46 AM
Not in Spain, where they are called vÃa de servicio. Thus, "service road".
In Mexico, they're called or
carriles laterales or
calles laterales or simply
laterales.
https://goo.gl/maps/ApcbtsdtXSZC6Y7t5
Quote from: Pink Jazz on April 30, 2022, 12:08:02 AM
In Puerto Rico, they are called "Calle Marginal".
In Cleveland along I-90, they are called "Marginal Roads" too.
They're even mentioned on this exit sign: https://goo.gl/maps/EXHTrmXE1UGGbRqd7
"Frontage Road" for me too.
They call them "feeder roads" in Louisiana, probably pulling from the Houston area. But ever since I moved to North Texas they've been "frontage roads."
Quote from: Road Hog on May 07, 2022, 01:19:45 AM
They call them "feeder roads" in Louisiana, probably pulling from the Houston area. But ever since I moved to North Texas they've been "frontage roads."
Where in Louisiana is this term used? Never heard of "feeder road." Up here along I-20 you will see a mix of terms used. When I was growing up, they were called service roads. But now the LA Dept. Of Total Destruction (LaDOTD) has been putting up signs calling then Frontage roads.
1199 S Service Rd W
https://maps.app.goo.gl/G3nQnsMcNJovrRZg9
200 S Service Rd E
https://maps.app.goo.gl/g7JpAWE9VDajxXyWA
I've always called them frontage roads, but have heard some of the other terms used as well.
I do like the argument for denoting feeder roads as those that are typically one-way and have many ramps with the parallel freeway.
Quote from: gonealookin on May 02, 2022, 12:16:54 AM
They are officially "Frontage Roads" in Nevada DOT's log of state-maintained highways, and that's the term I have always used.
Same here. (Although it's worth pointing out that NDOT's state-maintained highways log has a lot roads classified as "frontage roads" that are not traditional frontage roads as defined in this thread. Most NDOT-maintained roadways not classified as state highway or higher that fall within the bounds of a freeway interchange area are typically classified as a frontage road, including the actual intersecting roadway of an interchange. For example, here's the entire 0.15-mile extent of FR WA55 (https://goo.gl/maps/UbSc3nr4WtymEicu5), which consists of Keystone Avenue within the area of its interchange with I-80–so not a frontage road, but the actual road intersecting. There's countless similar examples. My guess is NDOT didn't want to come up with another roadway classification for these insignificant road segments that are still state-maintained.)
Often, if the frontage road doesn't have another specific road name, NDOT or the local maintaining agency will sign it as "Frontage Road" on street name signs.
Quote from: kphoger on April 29, 2022, 04:01:25 PM
Frontage road.
Even in Texas, where they supposedly call them feeder roads, the highway signs say (https://goo.gl/maps/wxLw9ENJyLHaG2828) 'Frontage Road'.
No, "FEEDER" is just used south of US-190; primarily in the Houston region. In North Texas it is either Service Road or Frontage Road. Frontage road works fine for us because that is what the signs used to say.
Outer Road
Service road (that's what the QEW uses). I'm used to hearing frontage road too though from this forum.
If Agent Steel were here, if he disliked the OP, he would say something like. " Just another Road." :-D
It depends on the people who live around it.
Quote from: bwana39 on June 12, 2022, 07:54:54 PM
No, "FEEDER" is just used south of US-190; primarily in the Houston region. In North Texas it is either Service Road or Frontage Road. Frontage road works fine for us because that is what the signs used to say.
Specifically, Service Road is used in the DFW area, Access Road in San Antonio, and Frontage Road in the rest of Texas.
Back in the summer of 1967, when I was 11, my parents and I traveled across the USA by car from Fort Wayne, IN to visit my mother's brother & family in San Buenaventura, CA (better known as Ventura). The Interstate System as we know it today was only about 1/3 to 1/2 way completed, so we used both freeways and U.S. Highways to cross the country. Roughly, we took US 30 to the Chicago area, then I-80, US 30 & US 6 to western Nebraska, & then I-76/US 6 to Denver, where we visited friends of my parents and spent half a day doing touristy things (such as visiting the Denver Mint). From there, we took the then-tolled Denver-Boulder US 36 route up (literally) to Boulder & Rocky Mountain National Park. After cresting the Continental Divide, we exited the park on US 34 and then picked up US 40 in Granby, CO. Following highway 40 for the next two days, and what was then built of I-80 from east of Salt Lake City on, we eventually spent night five of the trip in Auburn, CA. On day six we entered Sacramento and picked up old US 99 (which was still being converted into CA 99, after the Great CA renumbering of 1964).
Driving south on the 99 through the Big Valley, I noticed a lot of signage for "Frontage Road" throughout that day's journey. My 11 year-old brain thought, "This must be one LONG road!" Of course, as I later learned, these signs were just referring to the freeway's local service/access roads that paralleled the highway. But to me, ALL such paralleling roads will always and forever be FRONTAGE roads, no mater what the FHWA, State and/or local DOTs, and local residents prefer to call them!
How about switching designations on a BGS? Exit 86 on I-81/I-77 near Fort Chiswell, Virginia was originally marked "Service Road" on the BGS, but nowadays sports the moniker "East Lee Highway" and "Chapman Road" along with shields for SR-F044 and SR-F045. Needless to say, VDOT uses the "F" on the shields to designate "Frontage Road".
By the way, the exit is actually for "Ready Mix Road" since the two frontage roads are, of course, alongside the Interstate.
Frontage Road is what I would call it. Usually frontage roads are maintained by counties and cities if I am not mistaken?
Quote from: bing101 on June 20, 2022, 12:14:17 AM
Usually frontage roads are maintained by counties and cities if I am not mistaken?
I don't believe this is true in Texas, but I'm not 100% certain.
Quote from: SSR_317 on June 19, 2022, 03:25:22 PM
Back in the summer of 1967, when I was 11, my parents and I traveled across the USA by car from Fort Wayne, then I-76/US 6 to Denver,
It was labeled as I-80S back then..... Until 1975 or so.
Quote from: bing101 on June 20, 2022, 12:14:17 AM
Frontage Road is what I would call it. Usually frontage roads are maintained by counties and cities if I am not mistaken?
In Texas by TxDOT almost universally.