frontage road
noun
: a local street that parallels an expressway or through street and that provides access to property near the expressway
called also service road
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Zimmerman said city officials are working to improve traffic flow in the area, especially at the intersection of the frontage road and Washington Avenue.
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Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2025
The most promising of the three was Twin Oaks Court, a cluster of lots on a dead-end street sprouting from a frontage road along the I-280 freeway.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
Wald, who helped author the initial plans for the highway’s northern stretch in 2005, told the Statesman that planners originally wanted to accomplish that via a system of frontage roads parallel to the highway.
—Idaho Statesman, 29 Sep. 2025
The crash happened on an Interstate 76 frontage road near Roggen in Weld County, Colorado State Patrol spokesperson Gabriel Moltrer said.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
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Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2025
The most promising of the three was Twin Oaks Court, a cluster of lots on a dead-end street sprouting from a frontage road along the I-280 freeway.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
Wald, who helped author the initial plans for the highway’s northern stretch in 2005, told the Statesman that planners originally wanted to accomplish that via a system of frontage roads parallel to the highway.
—Idaho Statesman, 29 Sep. 2025
The crash happened on an Interstate 76 frontage road near Roggen in Weld County, Colorado State Patrol spokesperson Gabriel Moltrer said.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Frontage road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frontage%20road. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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