More About roads
Roads and streets
In a town or city, street is the most general word for a road with houses and buildings on one or both sides: a street map of London.
Street is not used for roads between towns, but streets in towns are often called Road: Oxford Street
Mile End Road.
A road map of a country shows you the major routes between, around and through towns and cities. Other words used in the names of streets include: Circle, Court, Crescent, Drive, Hill and Way. Avenue suggests a wide street lined with trees. A lane is a narrow street between buildings or, in British English, a narrow country road. The high street
High street is used in British English, especially as a name, for the main street of a town, where most shops, banks, etc. are: the shoe shop in the High Street
high street shops.
In North American English Main Street is often used as a name for this street. Larger roads
British and American English use different words for the roads that connect towns and cities. Motorways, (for example, the M57) in British English, freeways, highways or interstates, (for example State Route 347, Interstate 94, the Long Island Expressway) in North American English, are large divided roads built for long-distance traffic to avoid towns. A ring road (British English)/an outer belt (North American English) is built around a city or town to reduce traffic in the centre. This can also be called a beltway in North American English, especially when it refers to the road around Washington D.C. A bypass passes around a town or city rather than through the centre.