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(a freeway) near Carthage, Missouri. The frontage road (called an "outer road" in Missouri) is former U.S. Highway 71 Alternate. A second frontage road on the opposite side of the freeway is visible and was built during construction of the freeway.A frontage road (also access road, feeder, service drive, service road, outer road, and especially surface road) is a non-limited access road running Parallel (geometry) to a higher-speed road, usually a freeway, and feeding it at appropriate points of access (slip ramps). In many cases, the frontage road is a former highway already in existence when the limited access road was built. In other cases they may be built prior to construction of the highway. In urban areas, frontage roads are frequently One-way traffic roads when they exist on both sides of a highway. In more rural ones, roads are typically two-way.

Frontage roads provide access to homes and businesses which would be cut off by a limited access road and connect these locations with roads which have direct access to the main highway. Frontage roads give indirect access to abutting property along a freeway, either preventing the commerce disruption of an urban area that the freeway traverses or allowing commercial development of abutting property. At times, they add to the cost of building an expressway due to costs of land Wiktionary:acquisition and the costs of pavement (roads) and maintenance. However, the benefits of nearby real estate can more than offset the cost of building the frontage roads. Furthermore, a frontage road may be a part of an older highway, so the expense of building a frontage road may be slight. Conversely, the existence of a frontage road can increase traffic on the main road and be a catalyst for development; hence there is sometimes an explicit decision made to not build a frontage road.

A backage road is a similar concept, but lies on the other side of the land parcels that abut the frontage road. It serves mainly to provide access to those parcels without using the frontage road.

Collector-express The successor to the concept of service/frontage roads in urban freeways is the collector-express system, which is designed to handle closely spaced interchange ramps without disrupting through traffic. Unlike service roads, the collector lanes are typically high-speed full controlled-access lanes, conforming to freeway requirements. The collector lanes may also be known as a collector/distributor road and slip ramps provide access to and from the express/mainline lanes. Frontage roads may feed into and from collector/distributor roads near some interchanges.

Texas (Airport Freeway) in Irving, Texas.Most Texas freeways have frontage roads on both sides. In urban and suburban areas, the traffic typically travels one-way only in the direction of the neighboring main lanes. Most other areas have two-way traffic, but as an area urbanizes the highway is often transformed for one-way traffic. Over 80% of Houston freeways have frontage roads, which locals typically call feeders. Many frontage roads in urban and suburban areas of Texas have the convenience of Texas U-turns, which allow drivers to avoid being stopped by traffic lights when making a U-turn.

The Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, Texas illustrates the practicability of the frontage road: the real estate developer John Stemmons offered free land to the Texas Highway commission in which to build a freeway (Interstate 35E (Texas)) on the condition that the Texas Department of Transportation build the freeway with frontage roads that would give access to undeveloped property until then of slight value that he owned along the freeway corridor. The state was able to reduce its costs (largely the cost of land acquisition) of building the freeway and did not need to acquire and demolish developed property; in return the developer profited handsomely from lucrative development along the freeway.

With the arguable exception of Missouri, Texas is the only state in the USA that widely constructs frontage/access roads along its highways state-wide, even in some rural areas. Outside of these two states, frontage roads are common in only Louisiana, New Mexico, Michigan, Mississippi, and Florida, and then only in urban or suburban areas.

Frontage roads are often built as part of a multi-phase plan to construct new limited access highways. Therefore, they initially serve as a highway with access to local business before the freeway is constructed several years later. Even after the completion of the new freeway, frontage roads serve as a major thoroughfare for local activity, such as with the Katy Freeway project in Greater Houston. In several cases, a long range plan has called for a future freeway, but the design is either changed or the project cancelled before completion .

Entering and exiting from access roads can be very confusing to drivers unfamiliar with the system. Signaling is very important not just for the drivers behind one, but also for oncoming traffic in areas where the access road is two-way.

Nicknames for frontage roads vary within the state of Texas. In Houston and East Texas they're called feeders. Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas residents call their frontage roads "service roads". In San Antonio, Texas, they're known as "access roads". El Paso, Texas residents call their frontage roads "gateways". In Austin, Texas, however, they use the state's official term of "frontage roads".

In 2002, the Texas Department of Transportation proposed to discontinue building frontage roads on new freeways, citing studies that suggest frontage roads increase congestion. However, this proposal was widely ridiculed and criticized and was dropped later the same year.

Michigan Frontage roads are also common in Metro Detroit, where they are usually referred to as "service drives." As in Texas, they typically run one way with frequent slip ramps to and from the limited access roadway, with Texas U-turns at or near many intersections. Unlike Texas, there is usually little commercial development situated along the frontage road itself (see for one example); the road serves to provide access to the freeway from existing residential streets and commercial surface thoroughfares. Also unlike in many locales in urban Texas, where an exit ramp may actually precede the entrance ramp for the previous interchange to facilitate access to businesses situated directly on the frontage road (in effect, the two interchanges overlap along the frontage road), Michigan slip ramps to and from frontage roads are generally positioned as they normally would be in the absence of the frontage road. Motorists entering and exiting the freeway are not sharing the frontage road simultaneously to as large a degree, reducing weaving. Access to the frontage road between exits is provided by turnarounds and frequent bridging, generally every 1/2 mile, between exits.

Michigan Left are also quite common at surface street-frontage road intersections, with dedicated turnaround lanes (similar to the Texas U-turn) built over the freeway on separate bridges approximately 100 meters from the main intersection and bridging.

With the exceptions of Interstate 275 (Michigan) and the freeway portion of M-53 (Michigan highway), every Metro Detroit freeway has a frontage road along it for at least a portion of its length.

There are no other Michigan frontage roads running more than one mile in length outside of the Metro Detroit area. New freeway construction in Michigan has not included frontage roads since the completion of Interstate 696, most of which was constructed along the rights of way of major surface arteries, in 1989.

Ontario The only freeway with a significant remaining network of service roads is the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). However, most of the slip ramps between St. Catharines, Ontario and Mississauga, Ontario were removed during major reconstruction in the 1970s and 1990s. Service roads are no longer able to directly access the QEW; they have been rerouted to intersections with other major roads which have interchanges with the QEW. Nonetheless, the service roads are positioned too close to the QEW to easily widen the freeway unless all the private properties along the service road are bought out. This would be unlikely in the current political environment.

The only remaining slip ramps connecting to service roads are on the QEW running through St. Catharines, Ontario. These dangerous low-standard ramps (due to lack of acceleration/de-acceleration lanes) are due to be replaced in a planned extensive reconstruction of the QEW that is currently underway. Similar service roads and slip ramps exist along Highway 401 (Ontario) through Oshawa, Ontario, but like through St. Catharines, these are also in the process of being replaced with modern ramps.

Highway 427 (Ontario) had its service roads replaced with a collector-express system in the 1970s. However, it has several RIRO access onramps and offramps to serve residential traffic in addition to its standard parclo interchanges with major Arterial road.

List of RIRO on the 427:

• Gibbs Road onto North 427
• Eva Road onto/off South 427
• Holiday Drive onto/off South 427
• Eringate Drive onto/off South 427
• Vahalla Inn Road onto North 427

China In China, roads running next to expressways of China, taking outgoing traffic and feeding incoming traffic, are called either service roads or auxiliary roads (fudao locally). Where expressways cross larger urban areas, such frontage roads may run next to the expressway itself. Much of the Beijing portion of the Jingkai Expressway, for example, has, in fact, China National Highway 106 acting as a split-direction frontage road.

Argentina In Argentina, especially around Buenos Aires, frontage roads can be found next to freeways. Examples include Avenida General Paz, and National Route 9 (Argentina) coming into Buenos Aires.

See also

• Collector-express
• Collector/distributor road
• Frontage Lane

(a freeway) near Carthage, Missouri. The frontage road (called an "outer road" in Missouri) is former U.S. Highway 71 Alternate. A second frontage road on the opposite side of the freeway is visible and was built during construction of the freeway.A frontage road (also access road, feeder, service drive, service road, outer road, and especially surface road) is a non-limited access road running Parallel (geometry) to a higher-speed road, usually a freeway, and feeding it at appropriate points of access (slip ramps). In many cases, the frontage road is a former highway already in existence when the limited access road was built. In other cases they may be built prior to construction of the highway. In urban areas, frontage roads are frequently One-way traffic roads when they exist on both sides of a highway. In more rural ones, roads are typically two-way.

Frontage roads provide access to homes and businesses which would be cut off by a limited access road and connect these locations with roads which have direct access to the main highway. Frontage roads give indirect access to abutting property along a freeway, either preventing the commerce disruption of an urban area that the freeway traverses or allowing commercial development of abutting property. At times, they add to the cost of building an expressway due to costs of land Wiktionary:acquisition and the costs of pavement (roads) and maintenance. However, the benefits of nearby real estate can more than offset the cost of building the frontage roads. Furthermore, a frontage road may be a part of an older highway, so the expense of building a frontage road may be slight. Conversely, the existence of a frontage road can increase traffic on the main road and be a catalyst for development; hence there is sometimes an explicit decision made to not build a frontage road.

A backage road is a similar concept, but lies on the other side of the land parcels that abut the frontage road. It serves mainly to provide access to those parcels without using the frontage road.

Collector-express The successor to the concept of service/frontage roads in urban freeways is the collector-express system, which is designed to handle closely spaced interchange ramps without disrupting through traffic. Unlike service roads, the collector lanes are typically high-speed full controlled-access lanes, conforming to freeway requirements. The collector lanes may also be known as a collector/distributor road and slip ramps provide access to and from the express/mainline lanes. Frontage roads may feed into and from collector/distributor roads near some interchanges.

Texas (Airport Freeway) in Irving, Texas.Most Texas freeways have frontage roads on both sides. In urban and suburban areas, the traffic typically travels one-way only in the direction of the neighboring main lanes. Most other areas have two-way traffic, but as an area urbanizes the highway is often transformed for one-way traffic. Over 80% of Houston freeways have frontage roads, which locals typically call feeders. Many frontage roads in urban and suburban areas of Texas have the convenience of Texas U-turns, which allow drivers to avoid being stopped by traffic lights when making a U-turn.

The Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, Texas illustrates the practicability of the frontage road: the real estate developer John Stemmons offered free land to the Texas Highway commission in which to build a freeway (Interstate 35E (Texas)) on the condition that the Texas Department of Transportation build the freeway with frontage roads that would give access to undeveloped property until then of slight value that he owned along the freeway corridor. The state was able to reduce its costs (largely the cost of land acquisition) of building the freeway and did not need to acquire and demolish developed property; in return the developer profited handsomely from lucrative development along the freeway.

With the arguable exception of Missouri, Texas is the only state in the USA that widely constructs frontage/access roads along its highways state-wide, even in some rural areas. Outside of these two states, frontage roads are common in only Louisiana, New Mexico, Michigan, Mississippi, and Florida, and then only in urban or suburban areas.

Frontage roads are often built as part of a multi-phase plan to construct new limited access highways. Therefore, they initially serve as a highway with access to local business before the freeway is constructed several years later. Even after the completion of the new freeway, frontage roads serve as a major thoroughfare for local activity, such as with the Katy Freeway project in Greater Houston. In several cases, a long range plan has called for a future freeway, but the design is either changed or the project cancelled before completion .

Entering and exiting from access roads can be very confusing to drivers unfamiliar with the system. Signaling is very important not just for the drivers behind one, but also for oncoming traffic in areas where the access road is two-way.

Nicknames for frontage roads vary within the state of Texas. In Houston and East Texas they're called feeders. Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas residents call their frontage roads "service roads". In San Antonio, Texas, they're known as "access roads". El Paso, Texas residents call their frontage roads "gateways". In Austin, Texas, however, they use the state's official term of "frontage roads".

In 2002, the Texas Department of Transportation proposed to discontinue building frontage roads on new freeways, citing studies that suggest frontage roads increase congestion. However, this proposal was widely ridiculed and criticized and was dropped later the same year.

Michigan Frontage roads are also common in Metro Detroit, where they are usually referred to as "service drives." As in Texas, they typically run one way with frequent slip ramps to and from the limited access roadway, with Texas U-turns at or near many intersections. Unlike Texas, there is usually little commercial development situated along the frontage road itself (see for one example); the road serves to provide access to the freeway from existing residential streets and commercial surface thoroughfares. Also unlike in many locales in urban Texas, where an exit ramp may actually precede the entrance ramp for the previous interchange to facilitate access to businesses situated directly on the frontage road (in effect, the two interchanges overlap along the frontage road), Michigan slip ramps to and from frontage roads are generally positioned as they normally would be in the absence of the frontage road. Motorists entering and exiting the freeway are not sharing the frontage road simultaneously to as large a degree, reducing weaving. Access to the frontage road between exits is provided by turnarounds and frequent bridging, generally every 1/2 mile, between exits.

Michigan Left are also quite common at surface street-frontage road intersections, with dedicated turnaround lanes (similar to the Texas U-turn) built over the freeway on separate bridges approximately 100 meters from the main intersection and bridging.

With the exceptions of Interstate 275 (Michigan) and the freeway portion of M-53 (Michigan highway), every Metro Detroit freeway has a frontage road along it for at least a portion of its length.

There are no other Michigan frontage roads running more than one mile in length outside of the Metro Detroit area. New freeway construction in Michigan has not included frontage roads since the completion of Interstate 696, most of which was constructed along the rights of way of major surface arteries, in 1989.

Ontario The only freeway with a significant remaining network of service roads is the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). However, most of the slip ramps between St. Catharines, Ontario and Mississauga, Ontario were removed during major reconstruction in the 1970s and 1990s. Service roads are no longer able to directly access the QEW; they have been rerouted to intersections with other major roads which have interchanges with the QEW. Nonetheless, the service roads are positioned too close to the QEW to easily widen the freeway unless all the private properties along the service road are bought out. This would be unlikely in the current political environment.

The only remaining slip ramps connecting to service roads are on the QEW running through St. Catharines, Ontario. These dangerous low-standard ramps (due to lack of acceleration/de-acceleration lanes) are due to be replaced in a planned extensive reconstruction of the QEW that is currently underway. Similar service roads and slip ramps exist along Highway 401 (Ontario) through Oshawa, Ontario, but like through St. Catharines, these are also in the process of being replaced with modern ramps.

Highway 427 (Ontario) had its service roads replaced with a collector-express system in the 1970s. However, it has several RIRO access onramps and offramps to serve residential traffic in addition to its standard parclo interchanges with major Arterial road.

List of RIRO on the 427:

• Gibbs Road onto North 427
• Eva Road onto/off South 427
• Holiday Drive onto/off South 427
• Eringate Drive onto/off South 427
• Vahalla Inn Road onto North 427

China In China, roads running next to expressways of China, taking outgoing traffic and feeding incoming traffic, are called either service roads or auxiliary roads (fudao locally). Where expressways cross larger urban areas, such frontage roads may run next to the expressway itself. Much of the Beijing portion of the Jingkai Expressway, for example, has, in fact, China National Highway 106 acting as a split-direction frontage road.

Argentina In Argentina, especially around Buenos Aires, frontage roads can be found next to freeways. Examples include Avenida General Paz, and National Route 9 (Argentina) coming into Buenos Aires.

See also

• Collector-express
• Collector/distributor road
• Frontage Lane

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