Road vocabulary

Road is a flat, hard surface built for vehicles or people to travel on. Roads can include streets, highways or trails.

Streets are public roads in cities or towns. Streets can include:

Alley: a narrow street between buildings.
Avenue: a wide and long street with tall buildings on both sides in a town or in a city.
Boulevard: a wide street in a city, often with trees, grass or flowers on each side.
Cul-de-sac (also dead end): a street that has only one inlet.
Crescent: a street in the form of a crescent shape.
Drive (US driveway): A short private road for access to a house or a garage.
Walkway: a path for walking along.

Highways are public roads that connect cities. Highways can include:

Beltway: a ring road, that goes around a city.
Causeway: a raised road that is across wet ground or wetland.
Artery (also arterial road): a high-capacity and important road.
Dual carriageway (US divided highway): a road with median strip separating two or more lines of traffic that are moving in opposite directions.
Single carriageway (US undivided highway): a road with one line of traffic.
Motorway (US freeway): a highway that is designed for fast-moving traffic.
Expressway: a highway with limited-access, that is designed for fast-moving traffic, and goes through a city.
Service road: a side road running parallel to a major road.
Parkway: a wide road with trees and grass on the both sides and in the middle.
Turnpike (also toll road): a wide road that you pay a fee (or toll) to use.

Trails are roads, usually unpaved, through a countryside, forest, field etc. Trails can include:

A road can consist of carriageway (US roadway), lanes, pavement (US sidewalk), crossroads, and median strip.

Carriageway: the part of a road used by vehicles.
Lane: the part of a carriageway, that is marked by painted lines. The part of a road which is designed for bicycle travel is called bicycle lane.
Pavement: the part of a road for people to walk on.
Crossroads (also intersection): a place where two or more roads meet each other.
Median strip (also central reservation): a paved area that separates two or more lines of traffic.

We are walking along the road.

The hotel is on 13^th Avenue

Gravel roads are bad for tires.

A parked lorry is obstructing the highway.

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