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A frontage road (also known as an access road, outer road, service road, feeder road, or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road. A frontage road is often used to provide access to private driveways, shops, houses, industries or farms. Where parallel high-speed roads are provided as part of a major ...
Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive; [2] [3] also known as DuSable Lake Shore Drive, [4] the Outer Drive, [5] the Drive, LSD or DLSD) is a semi-limited access expressway that runs alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan and its adjacent parkland and beaches in Chicago, Illinois.
The Illinois Department of Transportation was created by the 77th Illinois General Assembly in January 1972. The department absorbed the functions of the former Department of Public Works and Buildings, acquired some planning and safety inspection functions of other state agencies, and received responsibility for state assistance to local mass transportation agencies such as the Chicago-area ...
Construction barrel. Construction barrels (coloqually known as " drums " in the United States) are traffic control devices used to channel motor vehicle traffic through construction sites or to warn motorists of construction activity near the roadway. They are used primarily in the United States, but are occasionally used in Canada, Mexico and ...
The Veterans Memorial Parkway in London, Ontario is a modern at-grade limited-access road with intersections. A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled-access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway ...
Longmeadow Parkway. The Longmeadow Parkway is a bypass of Algonquin, Illinois, that is partially open with the remainder under construction. It is a four-lane Fox River Bridge crossing and four-lane arterial roadway corridor with a median, approximately 5.6 miles (9.0 km) in length, to alleviate traffic congestion in northern Kane County.
Scott's Law. An electronic road sign on Interstate 39 outside Tonica, Illinois reminds drivers of Scott's Law. Scott's Law, 625 ILCS 5/11-907 (c), is a mandatory move over law in the state of Illinois. [ 1] The law requires that all motorists move over when encountering stopped or disabled emergency vehicles displaying warning lights. [ 2]
The AASHO road test was to study the performance of pavement structures of known thickness under moving loads of known magnitude and frequency. [citation needed] The study was carried out from August 1956 to November 30, 1960 in Ottawa, Illinois [2] and has been used as a primary source of experimental data when vehicle wear to highways is ...