What are the rules that govern what is a street,a road, a lane, an avenue, a blvd, etc.?

Answer 1

a street usually runs its length within a city or town

a road usually leads to outside the town limits

a lane is a smaller offshoot of a street

an avenue is like a street, but may be used to indicate location within a town. for instance, all streets are on the west side, all avenues on the east side.

a boulevard is a wider version of a street, appropriate for increased traffic or parades.

Answer 2

Depends on WHERE you live, each city, or county or state have their own rules..

Some citys may have it set up so that streets must run east and west and avenues run north and south ect.

Some large city like Miami may use all of them in a row like

21st ave N
21st street N.
21st Blvd N.
21st Lane N.
then goto

22nd ave n
22nd street n.

and so on.

The rules are set by the county or city engineers
city planners....

Answer 3

the classification of the road is broken into 'federal funtional classification' which goes from interstate, arterials, to collectors, and local roads, as well as minor, major and other sub-classification. these are designated by size capacity, and the amount of traffic that they handle, or can handle.

a street, road, lane, or boulevard are political classifications. usually designated in rural areas by their geographic importance (ridge road), prominent/local/significant/ (features, family, etc) lake street, stewart lane..... but really are named by what people will recognise them for. but the political classification is done by local administration and planners, as to what to politically classify the road as. if your family (the hatfields well say) has a couple of houses that go into the woods, and the town decides that they need to build the road to accomodate more growth, and for 911 purposes call it something, (now that there are more than 1 residence) you can probably request that the road be called hatfield road, or hatfield lane.

typically, roads are interconnected, while lanes are dead ends, a street is a road in an urban area, avenues are larger multilaned streets(which may or may not be one way) and boulevards are even wider with large pedestrian ways as well in the urban area.

Answer 4

governs it for what? The vehicle code governs drivers on those roads. The Building Code governs building structures on those roads. The Streets and Highway Code also govern them...

Gotta be more specific

Answer 5

A crackpot civil engineer thinks of it or a Mayor gets to do something important.

Answer 6

i'm guessing that's just the names. maybe i'm wrong, but i don't really care as long as they don't lead me over the side of a cliff

Answer 7

There are no rules.

Answer 8

there are none