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service road

n. a local road that runs parallele to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property [syn: frontage road]

Usage examples of "service road".

He was driving toward it for a moment, just before the service road swung to the left to go around that wing, and from a distance of only a few yards, with all the other panes reflecting the glare of his headlights, his attention was caught by the missing glass at the bottom right.

Pendergast took her arm and steered her gently but firmly away, and before she could recover they were out of the corn and on the narrow dirt service road beside her Gremlin.

It would not take me more than twenty minutes to load the platters, then pack the trash and toss it into the castle Dumpster, located on the far side of the moat by a service road.

Nearby was a heavy, wandering black line, which I presumed to be the Forest Service road we stood beside, though there was no actual telling.

Along a cul-de-sac whose only function is that of service road to the remoter storage pens of the auction mart?

A lane off Great Marlborough Street called Ramillies Street gave access to a service road called Ramillies Place behind the Oxford Street stores, while the lane dwindled to a flight of steps leading up to Oxford Street.

The pump marked the dead end of this branch of the service road —.

They had discovered the dig last summer while practicing motocross jumps and maneuvers on the maze of barely perceptible trails that branched outward from the forest service road that dissected the narrow valley.

He took one ragged breath, then started the car, and drove some way down the service road to the flats.

He had to stop the Honda at the entrance to the service road, which appeared to be blocked by a padlocked gate.