{"id":621,"date":"2018-09-20T07:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T07:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/?p=621"},"modified":"2019-03-13T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:59:29","slug":"street-road-or-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/street-road-or-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Street, Road or Avenue?"},"content":{"rendered":"
What makes a thoroughfare a \u2018boulevard\u2019 rather than a \u2018street\u2019? Discover the naming convention for roadways and find out why streets, avenues and roads are named as such.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"\"A road\u00a0<\/strong>is anything that connects two points, while a way\u00a0<\/strong>is a small sidestreet off of a road.<\/p>\n

We call it a street\u00a0<\/strong>if there are buildings on both sides. They are often perpendicular to avenues<\/strong>, which also have trees and buildings on each side, though this is not always true in Singapore \u2014 Cross Street runs perpendicular to other streets like Amoy and Cecil instead of avenues.<\/p>\n

Towns and cities with wide streets, especially those lined with trees, call them boulevards<\/strong>. Well known boulevards include Las Vegas Boulevard, the spine of Sin City, and Hollywood Boulevard, where tourists from all around the world flock around the star-studded Walk of Fame. The grand boulevards of Paris, lined with charming cafes and stylish patisseries, are also what make the city so distinctive.<\/p>\n

Unlike boulevards, lanes\u00a0<\/strong>are narrow roads in rural areas; in Singapore, they refer to local access roads. Leading to several farms in Lim Chu Kang, for instance, are Lanes 1 to 9.<\/p>\n

If a long, winding road takes its contours from its natural environment, such as a nearby mountain or lake, we call it a drive<\/strong>. Think twice before turning into a place<\/strong>, because it is usually a dead end. This is true of Stratton Place and Sunrise Place, both of which lead you nowhere.<\/p>\n

Crescents <\/strong>are roads that are \u2018U\u2019-shaped, and often lead to roads on both ends. Cheng Soon Crescent in Bukit Timah fits this form. Courts <\/strong>usually end in a circle
\nor loop.<\/p>\n

A highway\u00a0<\/strong>is a road usually placed higher than its surrounding topography, though it is not necessarily always the case. In Singapore, West Coast Highway and Nicoll Highway appear to sit on level ground. Highways are designed to cater to a maximum speed of 80km\/h and can be two or four-laned.<\/p>\n

Expressways\u00a0<\/strong>are designed for higher speeds to allow motorists to travel quickly from one area to another, and can have up to six to eight lanes. The Central Expressway in Singapore, for instance, has three to four lanes on each carriageway, while the Marina Coastal Expressway has five lanes in each direction.<\/p>\n

A turnpike\u00a0<\/strong>is part of a highway, but it usually means you are approaching a toll booth. What about a freeway<\/strong>, you ask? Like its name suggests, a freeway is toll-free.<\/p>\n

\"\"Roads that are raised above wetlands or water bodies are known as causeways<\/strong>. One interesting causeway is the narrow strip of land connecting the islands of Jindo and Modo in South Korea that only surfaces twice a year for roughly an hour.<\/p>\n

SINGAPORE\u2019S NAMING CONVENTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unlike these traditional naming conventions, Singapore tends to follow a hierarchy when naming roads: expressway > highway > boulevard > avenue > way > road > street > walk > lane.<\/p>\n

Boulevard<\/strong>, avenue<\/strong>, way\u00a0<\/strong>and drive\u00a0<\/strong>are considered major arterial roads; drive<\/strong>, road\u00a0<\/strong>and street\u00a0<\/strong>are considered minor arterial roads.<\/p>\n

Streets on higher ground could carry terms such as\u00a0mount, heights, hill, ridge\u00a0<\/strong>and rise<\/strong>, such as Namly Hill, Kent Ridge Road and Pasir Ris Heights. If a street is near a body of water, it could be named cove<\/strong>,\u00a0bay<\/strong>,\u00a0marina<\/strong>,\u00a0quay<\/strong>,\u00a0harbourfront<\/strong>,\u00a0straits\u00a0<\/strong>and coast<\/strong>\u2014 think Bayfront Avenue, Cove Way and East Coast Parkway.<\/p>\n

Streets could also be described based on its configuration, using words such as circle<\/strong>,\u00a0ring<\/strong>,\u00a0close<\/strong>,\u00a0cross\u00a0<\/strong>and turn<\/strong>. Cairnhill Circle, for instance, surrounds a cluster of luxury apartments before leading to a main road. Similarly, Pandan Loop belts around a plot of factories.<\/p>\n

Besides the reference to a road\u2019s context, the term\u00a0gateway\u00a0<\/strong>can be used if a road signifies the entrance to a district. Examples include the Jurong Gateway Road in Jurong Lake District and One-North Gateway in One-North.<\/p>\n

We hope this article has given you a clearer picture of how road terms have come about. Have you encountered any other interestingly named roads?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What makes a thoroughfare a \u2018boulevard\u2019 rather than a \u2018street\u2019? Discover the naming convention for roadways and find out why streets, avenues and roads are named as such. A road\u00a0is anything that connects two points, while a way\u00a0is a small sidestreet off of a road. We call it a street\u00a0if there are buildings on both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[421,435,424,433,441,443,440,427,434,426,444,425,430,432,446,438,429,280,436,422,428,437,442,420,423,439,419,445,431],"class_list":{"0":"post-621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-insight","8":"tag-avenue","9":"tag-bay","10":"tag-boulevards","11":"tag-causeways","12":"tag-circle","13":"tag-close","14":"tag-coast","15":"tag-courts","16":"tag-cove","17":"tag-crescent","18":"tag-cross","19":"tag-drive","20":"tag-expressways","21":"tag-freeway","22":"tag-gateway","23":"tag-harbourfront","24":"tag-highway","25":"tag-insight","26":"tag-marina","27":"tag-naming-convention","28":"tag-place","29":"tag-quay","30":"tag-ring","31":"tag-road","32":"tag-roadways","33":"tag-straits","34":"tag-street","35":"tag-turn","36":"tag-turnpike"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/aa-highway.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}