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A limited-access road or controlled-access road is a road to which access from adjacent properties is limited in some way. Beyond that, there is no one definition. It can mean anything from a city street to which the maintaining authority limits driveway access to a freeway.

History

The concept of limited-access roadways started during the parkway system in the state of New York, circa 1910.

The concept evolved into the so-called "uninterrupted highways" that are commonly known as in the United States as freeways, but can be called expressways according to the vicinity's nomenclature.

References

1. Environment Waikato Regional Council, Definition of Terms: "Limited access road for the purposes of this Strategy (section 5.6.3) is a local road occupied by a district/city council, where the number of accesses onto that road from properties is limited, due to road safety and visibility reasons."
2. Elko Traffic Code: "'Controlled access highway' means every highway, street or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street or roadway."
3. Jacksonville Transportation Authority - Rapid Transit Studies - Glossary: "Limited Access - Roadways with access limited to specific points (interchanges) with arterial or other limited access roadways."
4. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Section 1A.13 Definitions of Words and Phrases in This Manual: "Expressway—a divided highway with partial control of access." and "Freeway—a divided highway with full control of access."

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