Wiktionary
n. A smaller road alongside a main one such as an expressway, for access to adjacent property.
WordNet
n. a local road that runs parallele to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property [syn: service road]
Wikipedia
A frontage road (also known as an access road, service road, parallel road, etc.) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road. A frontage road is often used to provide access to private driveways, shops, houses, industries or farms. Where parallel high-speed roads are provided as part of a major highway, these are also known as local-express lanes.
A frontage lane is a paved path that is used for the transportation and travel from one street to another. Frontage lanes, closely related to a frontage road, are common in metropolitan areas and in small rural towns. Frontage lanes are technically not classified as roads due to their purpose as a bridge from one road to another, and due to the architectural standards that they are not as wide as a standard road, or used as commonly as a standard road, street, or avenue.
Usage examples of "frontage road".
The caboose sat on a concrete pad and two rails off a frontage road beside the state highway, in a region of low hills covered with maples and dogwood.
The van pulled off the highway, onto a frontage road, and into a parking lot.
Some vehicles had nosed out into the vacant lot next door and some hugged the fence along the frontage road.
Actually, he divided his time between the lab and the morgue out in the old county medical facility on Frontage Road.
A white Ford Expedition with Border Patrol markings sat at the edge of the frontage road turnoff.
Then all tires bounced free of the ground as it soared over the other edge of the ditch, landing with a screeching of rubber on a frontage road that paralleled the beltway.
Pitt gained almost ten seconds before they regrouped and roared down the off-ramp onto the frontage road and resumed the chase.
The possibility that a car was following the Mercedes had disappeared at the moment they turned to the frontage road.
They still had three kilometers to travel down the harbor frontage road to Pier 12.
The quickest route to her home was down the frontage road along Highway 77 to Buhler’.
The horseshoe drive was plugged into an eight-lanenot the highway, but a mere frontage road-with airon fence running down the center to keep pedestrians fromin midblock.
With both hands clamped on the steering wheel and his feet on the pedals, he maneuvered the speeder through a quick turn and shot for the frontage road.
Now as Ty swung off the frontage road, they could see that a temporary Road Closed sign had been set up, block.