What's the difference between a thruway, a freeway, and a highway?

Question

What's the difference between a thruway, a freeway, and a highway?

Answer 1

Nuthin.

Answer 2

Freeways lack "at grade" intersections - no traffic lights, just on and off ramps, and bridges / tunnels.

Highways, in Ontario, Canada, are defined as any public road.

A 'Thruway' may refer to a toll-road.

So, a highway is any public road

A freeway is any road, public or not, without intersections,

and a thruway is a toll road, whether public or not, and whether a freeway or not.

Answer 3

For the most part people use freeway and highway interchangibly. I really never use freeway much.

I'll say the highway or the interstate alot. If its not an interstate its just a highway. If its a very small highway in an urban area I sometimes just call it "a big road XD"

Then of course the tollway is the tollway or the tollroad, and the turnpike is just the turnpike.

I think it all depends where you're from, but the 3 you listed are basically the same thing.

Answer 4

a thruway i have no idea

however a highway, is usually just 2-3 lanes and goes straight, a major difference is that highways arent above the ground. And highways are for long distances more than less, because highways can go for miles and miles and miles with jus t fields.

a freeway has interchanges and overpasses frm other freeways. Freeways are more for commuting within the city.  Freeways are above ground, and have around 6 lanes. Freeways also have more twists and turns.

Answer 5

one goes thru the other goes over and the freeway does what ever it wants...

Answer 6

freeway usually means a highway without stops; All road changes are use by exit roads and ramps.  They are usually a US Interstate Highway or US Highway.  Sometimes state and local roads have freeway, but very few when the road is not a under a Federal system.

A highway is a road that connects more than one city or town and has traffic priority over other roads but is subordinate to the freeway, but freeways and other highways usually intersect by ramps, exit, and entry roads.

A thru way is like a short freeway (usually within a metro area that gets you directy from one point to another.

Just off the top of my head without researching.  

I guess you know what an expressway is since you didn't asked :]