How streets, roads, and avenues are different

Published on November 18, 2016
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! There’s a method to the madness of classifying roads.

Take a ride with Phil Edwards, as he explains the naming conventions behind roads.

A street is a road but a road isn’t always a street. A road can also be an avenue or a boulevard—it’s the general term for anything that connects two points. From there, the names of roads can be shaped by their environment and/or the form of the road. A drive is a long winding road that can be shaped by mountains or a lake. Place is a narrow road with no throughway. And just as there is no rule book to building a city, these roads and other don’t always correspond with their described classifications.

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