# What do you call this type of street? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 8, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146 "2019-02-08T01:15:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/41 "2019-02-12T14:29:38Z")
I select “Something Else” because you can’t select more than one… Ironically the one I don’t call it is the one that has been select most (at the time of me posting): “Frontage Road”. If someone said to me any of the following terms, they would match in my mind what you described: access road service road feeder road. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/42 "2019-02-12T19:13:47Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I call them service road, or access road, I’m from DC region. Bingo. From the same place, and while I call them access roads, I’ve also heard the term “service road” to describe them. I’ve never heard anyone use the term “frontage road.” ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/43 "2019-02-12T19:16:44Z")
I can’t think of a single example around Atlanta of the road type described in the OP. We do have frontage roads along each side of some interstate highways, but those are for 2-way traffic and serve the purpose of easier access to businesses. I can’t say that I have ever seen a setup with 1-way traffic roads on either side of a major thoroughfare. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/44 "2019-02-12T19:32:40Z")
Where I grew up, there was one actually signed “Frontage Road,” so I call them that. However, I don’t think I have ever seen one that didn’t have one lane going in each direction. In fact, there’s a “Frontage Road” in downtown Oakland that runs alongside Interstate 880. [Here’s a street sign](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8116588,-122.3029823,3a,75y,135.08h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTrqIb6ZuT3dqBymnX-bVTQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) with the name on it. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/45 "2019-02-12T19:39:25Z")
Service road in New York. I grew up on one of them - which became a service road when they demolished the houses across the street and dug an expressway. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/46 "2019-02-12T20:30:52Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > Bingo. From the same place, and while I call them access roads, I’ve also heard the term “service road” to describe them. I’ve never heard anyone use the term “frontage road.” Yeah, they’re pretty common in DC, it’s a good place for cabs to drop off passengers and delivery trucks to stop without blocking the main road. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/47 "2019-02-12T21:56:01Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > This article has pictures of the type of road in question: [https://ggwash.org/view/66387/a-shared-space-is-coming-to-connecticut-avenue-cleveland-park](https://ggwash.org/view/66387/a-shared-space-is-coming-to-connecticut-avenue-cleveland-park) Okay. I looked at the picture. There’s one street that _sort of_ looks like this in near Huntington Avenue in Boston, but I don’t think it’s quite the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/48 "2019-02-13T04:53:34Z")
I call it a service _drive_, not a service road. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/49 "2019-02-13T11:17:00Z")
Nm ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/50 "2019-02-13T12:43:28Z")
Southern Ontario; they are called service roads, and in fact are often named that. Near here, running more or less parallel to the QEW/403 freeway, many businesses are located on North Service Road or South Service Road. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/51 "2019-02-13T13:50:24Z")
I’m surprised that frontage road is in the lead, I don’t think I had ever heard that term before. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/52 "2019-02-13T18:50:08Z")
I’d call them “the side of the boulevard”, but I’d be translating directly from Spanish. I see from previous responses I’m not the only one who’d use that name, though. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/53 "2019-02-14T19:50:10Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I’m surprised that frontage road is in the lead, I don’t think I had ever heard that term before. It’s more common in the Western U.S. Sometimes you’ll see a sign along the freeway identifying one as a “Frontage Road”. They’re more common in rural areas. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146/54 "2019-02-15T23:51:26Z")
There is one of those in Baltimore County, just north of Hillen - Loch Raven Boulevard. Or perhaps that was Hillendale, been a while. Dan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-street/829146.md?page=2)