What's the difference between a freeway and a highway?

Answer 1

"Freeway" and "highway" are mostly interchangeable words used to describe a road devoted to higher-speed traffic between cities.

"Freeway" tends to be used more on the West Coast of the U.S., "highway" is more of an East Coast term. In the U.K., most people will refer these this kind of road as a "motorway."

Generally, "freeway" isn't used to describe toll roads, although the term refers more to the motorist's ability to drive free of slower, local traffic rather than to drive without paying to use the road.

The term "highway" may also be used to refer to a road that is elevated from the "surface" streets.

Other terms that are more or less interchangeable with "freeway" and "highway":

-- Throughway, or thruway
-- Expressway
-- Superhighway
-- Interstate (to designate a limited-access road that is part of the federal interstate highway system)
-- Parkway (usually designates a scenic, limited-access road)

A "turnpike" also is a high-speed road, but the motorist must pay a toll. The word comes from the first toll roads, which were blocked at each end by a long pole (or pike), supported on a swivel point. When the toll was paid, the operator turned the pike around to permit passage.

Parts of the interstate system are toll roads, most famously, perhaps, the section of Interstate 95 that goes through New Jersey (the New Jersey Turnpike).

Answer 2

so a strategies as i've got learn the line device interior the U.S. i've got in no way heard of any highways ever the place you have been allowed to trip at a hundred miles according to hour. I comprehend there are some interstates in Montana that permit greater speeds. . Freeways are basically yet another call for a multi-lane limited get right of entry to street like all interstate street. In city factors they are in many cases many lanes wider that of maximum factors of the interstate street device which they are all surely a factor of yet in an city placing. The observe street is in many cases used for all different forms of roads that have not have been given limited get right of entry to. I-10 as an occasion starts off in Jacksonville, Fla and ends up in L.A. The multi-lane element of it in L.A. is reported as a throughway.

Answer 3

a freeway is a hiway with no tolls. it's also called an aexpressway,
a major divided highway designed for high-speed travel, having few or no intersections. Also called limited access highway , superhighway , thruway .

a highway is a main public road, especially one connecting towns and cities.

Answer 4

Freeway is 4-lane or more, Highway is 2-lane

Answer 5

I call all major roads highways, but my cousin who lives in California (I live in New York) calles all major roads freeways. I don't think it has anything to do with tolls or lanes, I think it's just an East Coast/West Coast thing.

Answer 6

A freeway has limited access, meaning there are no stop lights or turnlanes. Highways can have turnlanes and the occasional stop light.

Answer 7

Freeway is a dual-carriageway main road..whereas a High way is a 4-lane / 6-lane main road.

Answer 8

In Chicago, there are also expressways and tollways.