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system. Minor thoroughfares may be used to supplement the major thoroughfare system by facilitating a minor through traffic movement and may also serve abutting property. 3. Local Streets - A local street is any link not on a higher -order urban system and serves primarily to provide direct access to abutting land and access to higher systems. C. Specific Type Rural or Urban Streets 1• Freeway, expresswa _ roadways designed to carryrlarge volumesdofutraffic at relatively high speeds. A freeway is a divided highway providing for continuous flow of vehicles with no direct access to abutting streets and with, access to selec redrerossroads divideddhighwaynwith1full or partial expressway is a access and generally ith p gal control of intersections. p, y grade separations at major Parkway ahighway for non - commercial traffic, with full or partial access, and usually located within a control of ribbon of parklike development. park or a 2. Residential Collector Street - A local access street which serves as a connector street between local residential streets and the thoroughfare system. Residential collector streets typically collect traffic from 100 to 400 dwelling units. 3. Local Residential Street - Cul -de -sacs, loop streets less than 2,500 feet in length, or streets less than one mile in length that do not connect thorough- fares, or serve major traffic generators, and do not collect traffic from more than 100 dwelling units. 4. Cul -de -sac - A short street having but one end open to traffic and the other end being permanently terminated and a vehicular turn around provided. 5. Frontage Road - A local street or road that is parallel to a full or partial access controlled facility and functions to provide access to adjacent land. 6. Alley - A strip of land, owned publicly or pri- vately, set aside primarily for vehicular service access to the back side of properties otherwise abutting on a street. 72