streets and roads

[halfwit]

what is the difference between a street and a road?

[Lindy Loo]

I didn't think there was a lot of difference but according to the Oxford dictonary experts a 'road' is a general term, whereas 'street' is narrower in sense and chiefly urban in application: a street typically has buildings on either side, and is paved or metalled!! Either way they look the same!! Hope this helps

[sft42]

Traditionally Roads led to somewhere (or used to), they sometimes still have names that reflect this (there is a London Road in Glasgow).....nowadays though there seems to be no difference.

[Quizmonster]

And what about Ermine Street...the Saxon name for the Roman road that ran from London to York?

[shaness]

Did you know that the City of London has no streets or roads inside the suare mile.

[Quizmonster]

I don't know London at all well, but I always understood that the Bank of England was called the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, at the very heart of the City. Isn't the bank within the square mile?

[londonbarry]

I work at Cannon Street, which is whitin the Square Mile. What about Lombard Street, Fenchurch Street, Liverpool Street and so on. Shaness, maybe you mean roads, as I can't think of any roads in the Square Mile.

[halfwit]

londonbarry is quite right.There are streets but no roads in the square mile.

[Yeah Bee]

Don't know but you say in the street and on the road, suggesting that a street is lined with houses and a road is a thing on its own. Thenb there is the thing in New York with streets and ways. Can't remember which ones i which but one of them goes north to south and the other goes east to west so no way can cross another way. And I believe Broadway is the only exception

[pruney]

Isn't Farringdon Road within the square mile? postcode is EC1M.

[helghast]

Watling street

[montyy]

a street is a road with houses along it. e.g. u wudnt say: i live on a road, but u wud say i live on a street. u wudnt say: i was travelling in the car down the treet, but u wud say: i was travelling down the road in a car (all, of course, depending on if u have a car!)

[Zen82]

Yeah Bee -- You means Street and Avenues -- Avenues go north to south and Streets go East to West -- as 110th. street is the border of Harlem

[crd]

Good Question this one. 

The answer to the question is "Not a great deal except, A Street is more often found in an Urban area than a Road and is more likely to be paved" and "A Road is less often found in an Urban area than a Street and less likely to be paved".   

The word Street ultimately derives from the Old Latin word strata means a paved road. The distionary definition is "A thoroughfare especially in a city, town, or village that is wider than an alley or lane and that usually includes sidewalks"

The word Road derives from the old English word Rad which means a ride/journey. The dictionary definition is "An open way for vehicles, persons, and animals; especially : one lying outside of an urban district"

[murvic]

Just to confuse the matter - in Preston you have Watling Street Road which is urban with houses on both sides.