Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/25/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Limited access highway would probably be understood generically in most of the US, but the term would not normally be used in the context,
For what it's worth (nothing), I (outside the US) have never heard the term "limited access" with respect to a road, ever. Or at least I intentionally forgot it for the purpose of making this statement.
Actually that's not true - I've seen some country roads marked "limited access", meaning that only park rangers are allowed on them. And maybe the term is occasionally used in cities to indicate roads that large trucks, or unauthorised people aren't allowed to use.
I think these are more correctly "restricted access" instead of "limited access", and that usage more frequently applies to roads that are not highways.
Ec