What is the difference between a road and a street?

Question

What is the difference between a road and a street?

Answer 1

There has NEVER been any difference.

Answer 2

a road is a 'ROUTE' whereas a street is a residential area lined by houses???

i think lol

Answer 3

Nowadays, nothing.  Technically I think one is paved and the other isn't.

Answer 4

A road is busy where the main hustle and bustle takes place...all the goings on, A street tends to be a little quieter.

Spose, depends where ya stay x

Answer 5

I think of a road as being out in the country and a street is in a town.

Answer 6

Streets are in town, roads are out of town with a few exceptions. I'd be suprised if someone found a street that was out in the middle of nowhere

Answer 7

All I know is the guys naming the roads near where I live must have been very uninspired when naming one road:

Avenue Road

I mean - come on town planners! Really! What next? Lane Street? Close Drive?! Crescent Way?!!!

Answer 8

I look upon a street as a road with buildings on both sides

Answer 9

A street is defined as being lined by buildings, rather than anything else.

A road is a road regardless of it's surroundings.

Similarly, an avenue is a road or path bordered by trees.

Answer 10

streets have to have houses on

Answer 11

This is most likely a strange way to look at it, but it's how I have always seen it. A road is like a never ending country "road" with dirt and gravel, somewhere to get lost, with no "street" lights. A street is within more of a defined community, with houses on both sides about three blocks and ends up runnning into several other "streets". Kinda odd I know..

Answer 12

theres no such program as coronation road, and the beatles didnt make a record called abbey street

Answer 13

A street has footpaths and so on but a road is pretty much a flat grond so cars can travel on.

I hope you can see the differences with these pictures..

http://www.rfdswa.org.au/images/NWC_Hwy_...

http://www.australianexplorer.com/photog...

Answer 14

nothing...no differance...both are the same.

Answer 15

Not a lot.

Answer 16

Nohing really.....

But the word street makes you think of a more quiet area, where as a road makes me think heavy traffic and such...

Nowadays its just like the Americanism "color" for the word "colour".

Answer 17

We usually use the word road to mean one we use for getting somewhere and street to mean the smaller thoroughfares in a town or city.  This is odd, because the original meanings were the other way around.

Answer 18

Duke75 is so right.

A street is paved (by definition: see stratum) and a road is a route to somewhere (as in I rode to Leeds)

Answer 19

road -- bigger, in areas not as built up.

street -- built up area.

avenue -- street with trees...

now days, you can name it anything..

Answer 20

Well I know the smallest street is in London, St Oswolf Street.

Streets tend to be short where as roads tend to be long IYSWIM, when you travel you go by road from town to town, streets are off these roads and lead to no where in particular.

Answer 21

Roads technically are ways that are paved for transportation. Now there isn't any difference. Way back when, roads were paved and streets were not.