Timeline for What overarching category do "street," "road," "avenue", etc. belong to?
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| Jan 15, 2012 at 3:37 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Peter Shor: In the UK, we have No Entry if you're not allowed [to drive] in. If a road doesn't actually connect back to other roads on the main network (effectively, doesn't go anywhere), the sign is No Through Way. Sometimes Cul-de-sac, but that's only used for very short roads that don't even connect to other "dead ends". | |
| May 18, 2011 at 13:47 | comment | added | Peter Shor | To me, a thoroughfare is something that goes from one point to another. That is, a dead-end street or a cul-de-sac would not be a thoroughfare. I am assuming the OP wants a category that includes dead-end streets, but I could be wrong. Comparing the definitions in American dictionaries (1a: a street open at both ends from Merriam-Webster online) with those from British dictionaries (On road signs, no thoroughfare means no entry or do not go in, from Cambridge Dictionaries online), I think this differs on opposite sides of the pond. | |
| May 18, 2011 at 9:47 | history | answered | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |