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jlv said:
At least give a link that leads to the answer: http://bit.ly/1pj37Ms" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Brilliant ! :mrgreen:

We have motorways, why make it more complicated ? lol
 
jlv said:
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Loved the Google link.

Now, is there a link that will fix my breakfast as easily as this?
 

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o00scorpion00o said:
jlv said:
At least give a link that leads to the answer: http://bit.ly/1pj37Ms" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Brilliant ! :mrgreen:

We have motorways, why make it more complicated ? lol

Ya, but you also have "dual carriage ways", which here, are just the old highways, the new highways are the expressways, unless they're turnpikes, which of course, aren't freeways, except they are.
 
and here we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway just to make things more complicated. then there's the difference between road, street, terrace, place, boulevard, parkway, drive, and the one in des moines i loved was street place. i lived on 35th street place for two years. wtf?
 
Being in the transportation industry I think I can answer this pretty easily.

In normal vernacular, all these terms are used interchangeably. Most people will use them for all of the same roadways: Limited access facilities (this is the technical transportation term).

What is a limited access facility? A roadway were you cannot turn on and off at any time onto cross streets - you have a limited access to and from the roadway by ramps.

Expressway and Highway really mean just higher speed roadways, which are usually limited access facilities. These facilities don't have to be (think of a rural roadway that runs 55+, it has no ramps and is not limited access, but is a high speed facility, yet we only sometimes call them highways). Freeway became of more usage after tollroads were first constructed, but, again, it just kindof melds into normal speech since most roadways are not tolled (yet).

So really, all three terms are used for the same thing. People call tollroads tollroads and not these other terms (although they are technically expressways and highways). Since these terms are ambiguous (what is considered a high speed? can any free road be a freeway, even a city street?) we try and use more technical terms in the industry to avoid confusion.
 
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