access road

English

Noun

access road (plural access roads)

1. A road giving entry to a region or, especially, to a motorway.
2. (more localised) A road giving access to a particular place.
   • 2020 August 26, “Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 10:

     He explained that engineers had been able to examine the bridge visually, and had started surveying likely sites for access roads and where to place the heavyweight crawler crane. NR was also ordering the aggregates needed for the access roads.

Synonyms

• (road giving access to a particular place): service road, driveway (US)

Translations

road

• Estonian: harutee, väljasõidutee
• Finnish: sisääntulotie
• Irish: bóthar rochtana m, bealach rochtana m
• Portuguese: via de acesso f
• Romanian: drum de acces (ro) n

See also

• frontage road
• service road

References

• “access road”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.