Talk:Frontage road

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An example is the specific definition used in the county ordinance of Arlington County, Virginia:

Service road (frontage road) is a roadway contiguous to and generally paralleling a street or highway designed to collect and distribute traffic desiring to cross, enter, or leave such street or highway, and to furnish access to property which would otherwise be isolated due to the controlled access design of the street or highway.

The Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, Texas illustrates the occasional practicability of the frontage road: the real estate developer John Stemmons offered free land to the Texas Highway commission in which to build a freeway (Interstate 35E) on terms that the state build the freeway with frontage roads that would give access to property formerly of slight value that he owned along the route. The state was able to reduce its costs (much of it the cost of land acquisition) of building the freeway, and the developer profited handsomely from lucrative development along the freeway.

This material doesn't seem to fit into the article. The section dealing with Arlington, Virginia simply repeats information already present. The Texas section seems unencyclopedic. Rt66lt 05:56, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup-Confusing & Diagram Request

I have tagged the article for cleanup because even though I already know what a frontage road is, I found the article to be extremely confusing. I have also suggested that a diagram be added, with clear labels as to exactly which roads are frontage roads, instead of just random pictures that contain frontage roads. Overall the flow of the introduction needs much work as well. I will try to cleanup this article as much as I can, but I will leave it tagged until then so that it will alert others to the attention this article requires. -- RedPoptarts 09:10, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

A map of a highway with service roads along a freeway would be appropriate.

I have removed this segment:

Service roads and collector lanes are not needed in suburban freeways which tend to be designed with interchanges spaced further apart and which have property development located a fair distance away (to avoid noise and pollution of the freeway).

because some of the suburbs have frontage roads. The image of a frontage road in Irving, Texas demonstrates that even if the frontage road was "not necessary" at one time, it is now, at least for commercial property and high-density housing along it. Irving is of course a suburb of Dallas. --Paul from Michigan 04:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Feeder and frontage roads are not synonymous everywhere

In road planning in Africa and Europe and elsewhere, 'feeder road' means a road which may be several hundred kilometeres long delivering traffic to a regional trunk road; it has nothing to do with 'frontage road'. This usages needs to be reflected in this article or a linked one. Rexparry sydney 07:01, 18 July 2007 (UTC)