Types of roads

thumb|Bundesautobahn 73 and its [[slip road leading to Erlangen, in Germany]]

thumb|Service street ("mews") in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in [[London. Mews are typically found at the back of older rows of townhouses, with a more elegant street in the front.]]A street is a public thoroughfare in a city, town or village, typically lined with buildings on one or both sides. Streets often include pavements (sidewalks), pedestrian crossings, and sometimes amenities like streetlights or benches. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as tarmac, concrete, cobblestone or brick. It can be des

highway designed exclusively for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated

roads built in service of the Roman Republic and Empire

thumb|A street in Oğuz (city)|Oğuz thumb|An aerial view of the Lakalaiva interchange in the Tampere Ring Road between the Highway 3 (E12) and Highway 9 (E63) near city of [[Tampere]]

A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway or wide road in a commercial district.

network of freeways in the United States

type of road with two unidirectional parts

wide, straight, usually tree-lined road or approach

thumb|Alley in Sanaa, Yemen An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road (back lane), or a path, walk, or avenue (French allée) in a park or garden.

type of road encircling a settlement

roadway for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage

unpaved road made from the native material of the land surface

traffic that moves in a single direction

type of limited-access road of a specific country

path made over frozen water rather than land

specially designated path, road, or waterway of interest

forest roads are used for forest development for the transport of forest products, people, operating resources and recreation

type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel

thumb|The chaussee over the Saint Gotthard Pass|Sankt Gotthard was built in 1827–1830 Chaussee is an historic term used in German-speaking countries for early, metalled, rural highways, designed by road engineers, as opposed to the hitherto, traditional, unpaved country roads. The term is no longer used in modern road construction in Western Europe, but survives in road names and is used by historians. In Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet states it remains a generic term for a common paved highway outside of built-up areas, but they may transition into prospekts within towns and cities.

roadbed made of logs perpendicular to the direction travel

type of major road, usually connecting major settlements

road, lane, track or path situated in a natural or ancient cutting

lane in which traffic may travel in either direction

high-speed road with many characteristics of a controlled-access highway (freeway or motorway)

road owned and maintained by a private individual, organization, or company

Design of road

highway which is part of a subnational highway network; often described as a state highway network, provincial highway network, or similar

street that is designed as a bicycle route

high-capacity urban road

thumb|upright|A purpose designed in east Utrecht (city)|Utrecht A '''''' () is a living street, as originally implemented in the Netherlands and subsequently in Flanders (Belgium). Techniques include shared space, traffic calming, and low speed limits.

thumb|Driveway to a farm thumb|Concrete driveways under construction

thumb|300px|Harden Parkway in Salinas, California

road for the distribution of mail

service road that serves predominantly agricultural or forestry purposes and has only local significance

short road forming a branch from a freeway, Interstate Highway, or motorway

thumb|A five-lane stroad on NY 78 (Transit Road) in [[Amherst, New York, surrounded by auto-oriented commercial development with empty sidewalks]] A stroad is a thoroughfare that combines the features of streets and roads. Common in the United States and Canada, stroads are wide arterials that also provide access to strip malls, drive-throughs, and other automobile-oriented businesses.

ornate road leading to a Chinese tomb of a major dignitary

thumb|right|A corniche carrying New York State Route 218 along Storm King Mountain can be seen on the left from across the [[Hudson River]] thumb|alt= The Hawk's Nest corniche on NY Route 97|The Hawk's Nest (Orange County, New York)|Hawk's Nest is part of a corniche which carries [[New York State Route 97 above the Delaware River]]

thumb|right| Kulgrinda by Medvėgalis hillfort '''''' (plural ; from the Samogitian 'stone' and 'pavement', itself from 'to rake, pull together') is a hidden, usually winding, underwater stony road or ford across swamps, swampy areas, lakes, or along rivers, used as a defense in the lands of Baltic tribes, in particular, in the history of Lithuania. Similar secret roads made primarily of wood and ground were known as '''''' (from , 'tree') and '''''' (from , 'earth, ground') respectively. Old Prussians are known to build kulgrindas already in the first centuries (of Common Era), while the Lithu

one-lane road that permits two-way travel

minor highway typically leading off a main road

type of road

road with one or more lanes with no central reservation to separate opposing flows of traffic

classification for any type of road

national cycling route network of the United States

thumb|100px|Sign for autovía in Spain

type of highway

Roads with rumours and reports of apparitions and ghosts

arrangement of carriageways within a major highway

short special route connected to a parent numbered highway at its beginning, then routed through the central business district of a nearby city or town, and finally reconnecting with the same parent numbered highway again at its end

road built or maintained by armed forces of a country