frontage road

American  

noun

1. a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.

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Etymology

Origin of frontage road

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

California’s most adventurous wolf was found dead on the afternoon of Nov. 10 that year, near a frontage road running parallel to Interstate 5, about 50 miles north of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

It was housed off a frontage road in San Rafael in a nondescript building “with a little sign in front that said ‘Kerner Optics’ or ‘optical division’ or something like that,” Poor tells me.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2022

The charter bus is not blocking the freeway, but was blocking a frontage road, he said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2018

This month, the city of Austin is building a roundabout at a congested intersection of the Interstate 35 frontage road and East 51st Street.

From Washington Times • Oct. 9, 2016

It turns out to be an unprepossessing white clapboard house on a frontage road off the freeway: authenticity!

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2016