Street --- Road --- Boulevard


While the term AVENUE is widely in use in BOTH the UK and the USA, the French term Boulevard is heavily in use in the USA but not in the UK. And normal roads in the USA are called STREETS but in the UK generally rather ROADS ------ all proves the famous Statement that what divides Britain and the USA is the common language

Jeez I am turning into my old man...

I lived on a lane, called cul-de-sac . . . what`s all that about then?

Re "street" use it the UK, not really. The road is the bit where the car drive - the tarmac). Streets incorporate everything around the road - road, pavement and houses/shops.

So every street will usually have a road, while not all roads will be a street - with several exceptions. Hence most towns have a High Street.

Sometimes Wolli, i do wonder...

This is going to be ' A long and winding road' thread.

Oxford Street?
Carnaby Street?
Coronation Street
Quality Street!!!!!

It must be Friday already.

I once knew a policeman who lived on Lettsby Avenue.


Come on Wolli, lets bring this closer to home, as you've posted in Daily Life - what about street names in Romandie ..... Route de -, Rue de -, Chemin de -?

I remember as a child that we (British) has Motoways and then, in descending order of classification, A B C and D roads.

I don't remember seeing C and D classifications any more. Have I become old and senile?

@Wolli: There is a huge difference in telling a child to "go and play in the street" and "go and play in the road"!

On OS and large scale road maps, Motorways were blue, A-roads red, B-roads brown, C-roads green and D-roads white (just two black lines) or a single black line on smaller scale maps.

Yep, life was much more colourful when we were young.

And in a similar vein, 'pavement' is the bit at the side of the road that is paved, usually with paving slabs . There's a clue in the name.

Some of these differences are historical, for example the use of 'sidewalk' by our colonial cousins, because they weren't actually paved in many new towns. On which note there's also the different usages of 'town', 'City'and 'village'

Well obviously. But in this case it's been several decades since c and d roads were abolished, and quite a long time since the b roads disappeared as. Nowadays is the number of digits that gives you a clue, but even that's been reduced, so they only use up to 3 and that doesn't always match the relative importance of the road.

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What about hamlet?

(I knew him well - he always smoked a slim panatela)

Not in the US! Although we do call animal casualties "roadkill" not "streetkill"

Fixed that for you.

C (and D and U) roads still exist in the UK. They're just not usually signposted anymore. http://www.cbrd.co.uk/c-roads/

I`m not sure that B roads disappeared - they are still signposted and marked on current maps, as far as I am aware.

And the fact that about only 20% of Americans descend from English-speaking ancestry.

BleicherWEG is a Major road in Zürich and the RennWEG is the oldest road of all here

The suspense is unbearable, come on Wolli how old is the Rennweg?

Case in point; Fribourg has a Route des Alpes and a Rue des Alpes that run just about parallel to one another.