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The Veterans Memorial Parkway in London, Ontario is a modern at-grade limited-access road with intersections. A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled-access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway ...
The first version of modern controlled-access highways evolved during the first half of the 20th century. The Long Island Motor Parkway on Long Island, New York, opened in 1908 as a private venture, was the world's first limited-access roadway.
An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a road without controlled access that can carry a large volume of local traffic at a generally high speed, being below controlled-access highways in the hierarchy. Because their primary function is to connect collector roads (below) to controlled-access highways, some are considered limited-access roads.
International E-road network (Note: not all E-roads are limited access with no at-grade intersections) The M1 highway running through Belarus Bundesautobahn 7 near Füssen, in Southern Bavaria, Germany. A1 motorway crossing Serbia, connecting the border to Hungary in the north, with the city of Niš to the south.
Category for Limited-access roads. Typically called limited-access highway, dual-carriageways, expressways, and partial controlled-access highways.
A two-way residential frontage road (left) parallel to a busy major highway Freeflowing frontage road. A frontage road (also known as an access road, outer road, service road, feeder road, or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road. A frontage road is often used to provide access to private ...
Limited-access roads in New Jersey (1 C, 35 P) Limited-access roads in New York (state) (3 C, 52 P) P. Limited-access roads in Pennsylvania (1 C, 26 P)
Soon the Autobahn was the first limited-access, high-speed road network in the world, with the first section from Frankfurt am Main to Darmstadt opening in 1935. [14] In the US, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921 (Phipps Act) enacted a fund to create an extensive highway system.