I've read that that is the most common name in Houston. There was an old study of regional naming ... it was a quiz, I think, and at the end it would make a heat map of your origin. Sometimes it was funnily accurate! (One of the interesting questions was what you called this road, multiple choice. Several things pinpointed your location within Texas!)

Living in another state will be a rude awakening for you probably…..lol

We had feeders in Canada. I have travelled frontage roads in Houston and Austin, the Texas turn arounds confused me a bit. But now I really like avoiding traffic lights

It's nice having all of the services right next to the highway and having an easy way to turn around if you miss an exit. It's pretty difficult to get lost in this state, imo.

@@AllAmericanGuyExpert Native Houstonian here, I can confirm that 'feeder' is probably more popular of a term here. I have always called them feeder roads. Frontage road sounds formal to me and access/service road both sound to me like the on/off ramp itself and not the frontage road.

The highway planning is pretty good here. Outside of the cities, almost all exits are on the right and there's a uturn lane for specifically reversing direction under most bridges just after an exit even in cities. It's pretty nice.

It's pretty difficult to get lost in Texas, since you can easily turn around if you miss an exit. Plus, while out traveling, services are usually placed on the frontage roads, so you'll never have to venture too far from the highway to get gas or snacks.

Same. I’m up in The Woodlands having moved from Greater NYC area, and at first I was bit uneasy….then like you, it clicked. I realized if I make a mistake or miss an on ramp or exit…no worries. Began to understand when to get in that right lane, and to be patent getting on the Frontage Rds. It’s an incredible sight to see around Beltway 8 and 610…but it’s brilliantly designed.

@@lolbuster01 Meanwhile, construction of these highways is happening in EVERY major city right now and it's been taking forever to get anything done, causing so much traffic.

@@OzzyTheGiant Well, that's to be expected when there is major road work being done. It is worth it when it is done, however. I live In the Cypress area of Houston and the 290 expansion started a couple years after I moved down here. The traffic was hellish already on 290 at the time, which I suspect is why they opted to expand 290 in the first place. This construction of course made traffic even worse - nightmarish. It probably took 3 or so years, but once it was finished the result was so worth it for somebody like myself that is served directly by this highway.

Texas is the one state where reckless driving is solely at the discretion of the officer regardless of speed- and drivers absolutely abuse the hell out of it. Because it has to be, to quote 545.351: "more speed than is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances then existing." TX drivers out there making TN and FL drivers look like grandmas. I'm brave, I've driven all 3!

@@buffcode I've lived in knoxville TN for a combined total of 6 years with 3 of them being with my license. Also, was born in Corpus Christi. Can confirm: Texas drivers make Tennessee crackheads look sober.

@@wifelikecow It's all fun and games til some Knoxville crackhead drops their needle and swerves all 3 lanes trying to pick it up and snashes the median barrier! I'm not even making that up, it happened right in front of me! You stay safe out there!

@@buffcode was this going east past weisgarber rd on 40?

@@buffcode Absolutely not. I never understood this point about how fast we go. Try going from Houston to Dallas at 90 and tell me you don’t get at least one or two tickets. Speed limit is 75 when it’s rural. 80 is okay. Anything more, don’t cry about tickets. Texas state troopers DO NOT PLAY

Salute my guy. My dad grew up in the Chi and I heard stories growing up. Never understood why he loved it here so much but now at 31, he makes sense to me lol.

Tell me about it. When I moved to WA it took years for the sense of "wrongness" when driving near highways to go away just due to the lack of frontage roads, and still i'm annoyed by that lack.

Frontage/Service roads makes sense especially for the business that run parallel. I've seen exits in NJ,CA,NY that ends practically into someone's living room(?) I know I have found following the GPS is not always correct... 😀

Try making that mistake on the PA Turnpike - 20, even 30 miles between exits in some places.

I’m on the other end of that spectrum: I grew up in western NC and we have roads like this that run parallel to the interstate to provide access to local businesses and homes; however, ours are two-way and it wasn’t until my family and I went to College Station for my little sister’s soccer tournament in 2016 that my siblings and I had seen one-way frontage roads like this (which I think is genius for all the reasons given in this video and may or may not have influenced some of my builds in Cities: Skylines). I’ve seen and read about other states implementing/proposing one-way frontage roads like this, but it’s mostly just been to prevent weaving between two interchanges that are very close together and NCDOT’s proposed I-26 Connector project in the Asheville area is a good example of this. Personally though, I think these should be built wherever possible due to their practicality

That is very understandable, for example every tram of interstate highways (69C and interstate 2) in McAllen has frontage roads, and these are not that much chaotic, because they are not two way roads, they are one way roads, depending on which side you are, unlike some other parts of Texas that have two way roads on each side which is confusing so you could say Rio Grande frontage roads or atleast in McAllen ar pretty practical. but i feel that, atleast the only ones that I know that are from Rio Grande Valley area, they take too much space, good thing they don't make congestion because exits have auxiliary lanes

I don't need no lame navapps. I upload data from paper maps into my Mark 1 guidence system: my head!!!🤪

Texas' system of frontage roads allows for very flexible ingress and egress with the freeway.

@@LoneWolf1493 I also think one way frontage roads are way superior and better than two way frontage roads, because the intersection does not only generate unnecessary congestion but it is also dangereous

Texas in nutshell

Not necessarily worse for pedestrians. Sidewalks along frontage roads allow pedestrians to walk to businesses along freeways. In a sense, they're kind of worse for drivers, since you *have to* change lanes to get on or off the freeway

@@lazygongfarmer2044 have you ever tried to walk along a frontage road? Let alone cross a freeway as a pedestrian?

@@noahgarcia7599 A: you don't cross the freeway, you cross at the cross street same as any busy road. B:Most frontage roads are perfectly walkable, more walkable than your typical stroad.

Well, the US is defined by car culture.

There’s ups and downs to the system, coming from a MO transplant. They are fantastic in midsized cities and suburban areas. In rural areas, they’re often two-way like the outer roads in every other state, except Texas decided to put the exit and entrance ramps right off of these to make them a “frontage road” still. And to a transplant at least, it’s unnecessarily complicated. In larger cities, they’re problematic due to backups at intersections, but that’s likely because the queue distance isn’t long enough since the cities have grown since the roadway was built. That said, I’m in Lubbock. The system works great here except for about an hour in the evening. The U-Turn system should be standard on every highway. Saint Louis has attempted to do something like this in some places, but none of the people involved have obviously not ever been to Texas because their implementation sucks worse than what they had before - “backage roads”.

A Con I haven't heard yet. Half of the addresses are on the side of the highway you're not on, meaning: those businesses get reduced traffic and shoppers.

@@user-qt4qp6bj1q that’s what Google maps is for

We've always had them in MI. We have them on the Interstate in the Urban areas. Particularly around Detroit and Flint. It is why you have exits at just about every mile.

I grew up in Colorado, learned to drive in Texas, and live along the I-20 corridor through DFW, so I'm really used to both. A lot of communities along 20 didn't want the interstate when it was put in, and they couldn't block the interstate itself, but they *could* passive-aggressively block the frontage road, so the I-20 frontage road is inconsistent in my area: there are a lot of traditional-style exits straight to cross streets, and a lot of weird things done to frontage roads.

Yep. I’m in Austin and it’s called “frontage roads”

@@Zach27727 "Frontage Roads" seems to be TxDOT's preferred term. The road signs here will usually call them that regardless of which region of Texas you're in.

DFW area: service road

We call them "service roads" up here in North Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth). Once you get into Waco, they seem to use the term "frontage road" more than "service roads" but I guess it's a regional preference.

Houston calls them feeder, Dallas uses “service”. Frontage roads are the general term used everywhere else (including the rest of Texas)

Ha! It's true, and it's a form of petition that can actually work if a particular location becomes enough of a nuisance for them. 🙂

Despite being born and raised there, it took me a while once I moved to other states to realize that those frontage roads or easy U-turns on Texas freeways are just specific to Texas

Lived in Mississippi for a few years before moving to Texas. Got my first taste of Frontage roads when i took trips to Arkansas. I was skeptical for a while even after moving to Texas, but the turn around makes them 10000% worth it. No state does highways as good as Texas.

@@andrewsloan3754 , Jug handles, I spent some time in NJ a couple years back, they have them on US Route Highways like US-1 for example. To go left on a lot of those roads you have to stay to the right lane if you want to enter a road that you would’ve otherwise entered with a left turn in left lane in other states.

As a Michigander I’ve heard of Texas turnarounds but I was shocked that other states didn’t have Michigan lefts lol.

I find it opposite, because it’s terrifying to pull out in traffic going 50-60 mph. And if you miss your store, you have to drive alllll the way around, and if you wanna cross the street, you’re screwed

I hope NotJustBikes enjoys the diet of bugs Klaus Schwab and the WEF are shoving down the EU's throat.

This is a strawman argument. Only a lunatic would cross an actual freeway on foot, one should be crossing at the grade seperated cross streets. These service roads allow a multitude of cross streets without interfering with the freeway.

Bro, you ain’t walking in south Texas when it’s 103 degrees for 4 months out of the year. Quit with the walkable cities meme

@@seanbohannon How far between are these cross streets, from a walkable perspective? And how safe are they for walking across? Just by lookin on this video, the traffic was going sub highway speeds on these frontage roads.

​@@seanbohannon only problem is, it would be a problem for people to climb the stairs and wheelchair users to climb up and down ramps. The minimum gradient is 1:14 but 1:20 or more is ideal. If you need to climb 17 feet, that is 250 feet of distance . But since you are going down, that is another 250 feet. 500 feet of extra distance. It would be like going up a 3 story building and down again. In the UK, this will only be necasary to cross a large fast busy road or motorway.

Also having grown up in SoCal, I have a slightly different take. Frontage roads are both a blessing and a curse. Blessing in the areas where they are consistent: one direction only with those glorious Texas U-turns. Horrifying curse where they are not: bi-direction with the freeway on and off ramps requiring crossing *over the opposing direction of traffic that only has a YIELD sign on the frontage road* with almost never a suicide lane in the middle to prepare your turn in and a 50/50 chance there’s a stop sign shortly after exiting. Add the sometimes wonky freeway signage (would be lovely if they could figure out that “exit only” on the same lane approaching the first exit for two consecutive exits should mean the lane continues on to end at the second exit rather than the lane to the left of you that suddenly becomes the 2nd exit’s exit only lane right as the first exit is peeling off) and it can get somewhat frustrating at times. SoCal freeways have their own issues, but at least they are much more consistent in this regard. (Dallas/Ft Worth, PLEASE get some consistency) As to why SoCal doesn’t have them for the most part: space. Texas has it in spades while SoCal does not. In the rare spot where there was some space, you’ll see an attempt at frontage roads, but they’re so uncommon they’re treated more like normal surface streets rather than freeway companions. I’m not sure where you’ve seen frontage roads only accessible from diamond interchanges, but I concede that likely does exist somewhere. With the blessing of space, I do like how Texas builds its freeways: plunk down your right of way, then build the frontage roads. The frontage roads can start serving traffic while you take your time to build the freeway in the middle. The 114, 170, and the northern terminus of the 360 were like that here in DFW and I thought that made so much sense (again, when you have the space to be able to do that).

That's partly intentional - it helps to buffer the more residential areas from that noise.

@@spamlessaccount, did you miss this part of what I wrote: "buffers, which reduce visual clutter and noise noticeably"?

@@ShawnD1027 I think the point they were trying to get at was that the commercial businesses themselves are the buffer for more residential areas. Of course, as you pointed out, this means that these businesses don't get to have their own sound buffer. How bad the sound is definitely depends on which highway(s) they're next to though.

But you can't walk ANYWHERE in Texas on account of distances and heat. It's just expected you'll drive everywhere.

@@marius2k8 that because highway made everything so spread apart

@@LWoodGaming People were already spread apart, because this was agricultural land. It wasn't until like a century ago that most people lived in cities. And the availability of cheap land naturally encouraged more impressive roadworks than elsewhere. And again, for like 9/12 of the year, you just don't want to go outside. It's miserable, bordering on swamp or desert. For those of us who prefer more humane climates, and really only go outside when they vacation in the mountains of Colorado, the proliferation of highways in Texas is pretty self-explanatory as well.

@@marius2k8I dropped my car off for service at the intersection of the SRT and DNT, and there were restaurants caddy-corner across that intersection. It was a 10 minute walk each way, but thanks to two 6-lane highways and multiple flying ramps, at least I wasn’t in the sun long.

People weren’t already spread apart-cities like Dallas and Houston were very dense a century ago, and only got hollowed out by highways since WW2. Of course the agricultural areas aren’t dense, but that’s not what anybody is talking about.

The ridiculous lane crossings to exit to frontage roads is a huge issue! In my opinion it is the single greatest disadvantage of this road design as a driver. It is not just shopping centers and businesses that I have trouble cutting over to in time. Sometimes the exit designs still make you cross 3-4 lanes in very little space even just to reach the particular intersecting road that the signs on the interstate signal you to "exit here" for! Very dangerous quick-merges these frontage road designs create!!! (or at least when they are poorly designed)

@@carolinavatorThat's why the access roads used to always be required to yield to the ramp. They're getting away from that, but they're also moving the exits further back from the roads they're intended for.

Only other person I see that mentioned feeder roads. Wew

In Texas they are called feeder roads. I grew up in Houston, and "frontage road" was only something I saw on road signs. People call them feeder roads.

Yup, I'm in Houston and I've always called them feeder roads.

They change based on what part of Texas you're in we call the service roads here

The name changes depending on the area. Tell someone from here in San Antonio to get on the feeder road and they probably won't know what you're talking about. Tell that same person to get on the access road and they'll get it.

I'm sure with a strong petrochem industry in both Houston and Middle East, there's bound to have been some cross pollination of socio-civil engineering ideas.

I know the TXDOT has a very large amount of Texas A&M alumni working for them and there is a Texas A&M campus in Qatar. Could be part of the reason for that, or maybe just a coincidence.

Cheap fuel and cheap land remove disincentives for these. Not that they're very safe: I have to drive an extra kilometer or so south every day to get to work here in Saudi, and then drive a kilometer north to get to the office. Often cars stack up in the U-turn lane and overflow into the left lane. Oncoming northbound drivers drive 110 km (68mph), and drivers making a U-turn must choose their gaps. It's a good thing we pray five times a day!

Nice insight. I imagine so

@@majedal-baghl4917Solution to that is dedicated acceleration lanes out of the U-Turn.

Good point.

@@MileageMike485 also second possible way revealed to me in a dream yesterday: Horses. You can ride horse on the side of a street but not the highway obviously.

That’s cynical enough to be actually true. Welcome to Texas where the business of government is business.

The actual name being "Texas Department of Transportation" makes your claim to have worked there appear a bit dubious.

service roads are mostly just a way to access the land that is being farmed, making transport much easier. county roads are still roads, even if they are mostly used for land portioning. sure their use has changed when towns grow into cities and then metroplexes. but their original purpose hasn't. connecting sellers to buyers.

@@ernestsmith3581 Depends on how long ago it was. The Texas Highway Department was created on April 4, 1917. On June 19, 1975, Gov. Dolph Briscoe signed a bill that merged Texas Mass Transportation Commission and the highway department to form the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation. The State Department of Highways and Public Transportation was renamed the Texas Department of Transportation in 1991.

@@petertrudelljr Well, they never changed the signs on the trucks from "Texas Highway Department" until it became Txdot.

Good point. I’ve seen that on the ones in Dallas

Same with parts of Route 66 east and west of Amarillo, that are now service roads for I-40.

And much if I-35 is the old US 77.

Austin needs more interstates

There are some cities that just have terrible planning, eveen in texas. Austion is one of them. the texas joke is that the engineers who did the road planning were thus: aggies

@@idminister It's true that any time you mention interstates in Texas, people from Austin are going to be upset. Rightfully so, as Austin has some unique issues that deviate from the norm. In my experience of course, it is true that most engineers are Aggies!

ahh yes... austin. the only city surrounded by texas. i dont think this is a road issue lol.

I can absolutely understand why you feel that way but, having traveled extensively both inside and outside of Texas, and having spent a good bit of time in Austin, I feel like lots of things there are just really poorly designed for such a large city precisely because they weren't designed for such a large city. 20, 30, 40 years ago, Austin was a much better place to drive, but the long period of outrageous growth that it's experienced has caused a lot of its infrastructure to lag behind the current needs and become difficult to use. It's a frustrating ordeal today. I promise it's a very different situation in much of the state, and frontage roads really do make things better in lots of places, at least in my opinion.

May wanna move to San Antone or the DFW Metroplex.

Houston is in hurricane AND cancer alleys!

For these reasons I hate them. They make crossing under an underpass terrible

@@connor5890 same number of crossings

Is it the lack of obstacles that allows the hurricane a given pathway way to destruction with no deterrent?

That’s right. It’s asinine. Speaking of which, guys’ butts are getting pretty soft and wide anymore, driving around on one’s ass for every little trip 🤭😭

Lol. No.

@@shivtim have you ever been on there, 610 wishes it were that bad

Being an Atlanta resident and having traveled to Houston, I am usually on 285 thinking it would be nice to have a few more ring highways like Houston has done...

@@danbert8 Yeah. As an Atlanta resident who worked out in Dallas a couple years ago, I realized Atlanta’s bypass needs another or more bypasses.

@@BabyBang17datruth The US, and Texas in particular, is proof positive you can't build your way out of traffic problems. There needs to be a fundamental shift in mindset. As a European, the concept of a bar with a large dedicated parking lot is absolutely nuts...

Texas traffic sucks! lol Texans are like a cult that thinks they have figured everything out, and yet, somehow, things run terribly! lololol I guess it's better than Arkansas...

I was recently on an FM in central Texas and had someone move to the shoulder to let me pass. And on the same trip, someone in oncoming traffic flashed his lights to let me know I'd be passing a cop soon. It felt like a blast from the past.

lol im TX born and i got pulled over in a suburb of Las Vegas for not stopping turning left in a curbed and grassed median. it was like 3am and we had been driving all night, and i was watching the GPS. i didnt even know that was a thing. luckily i only got a warning, but i had just assumed it was a obvious yield. (too be fair there was an obvious stop sign)

People still go onto the shoulder to let people pass all the time in my area. (To be fair, I live in a very remote, rural part of the state where most roads are only two lanes. I'm sure that makes a big difference.) You'd be considered deeply rude and inconsiderate-or maybe assumed to be from up north or the west coast, which unfortunately amounts to pretty much the same thing in the minds of some Texans-if you didn't. I did not know it was illegal in some places to turn from the shoulder. I've done it all over the country, probably including LA (I do it so habitually that I don't even know when I've done it), so I guess I've just gotten lucky and never been caught. Thanks for the tip!

I stopped moving over because of nails. Had way too many flats, and even multiple flats at the same time.

I have lived in Texas and Michigan, and I am convinced that frontage roads have helped Texas grow. Frontage roads are excellent for commercial development while making the infamous stroads unnecessary for such. Michigan could have used them, and I can say the same of neighboring Indiana and Ohio. Forest, mountain, and desert areas are inappropriate for them as there is no developable real estate nearby. Frontage roads keep traffic from festering at the busier exits.

Induced demand is not bad. Who cares that more demand comes in?

Typical morning.

Yes, in the northeast we have some limited "service roads". These are pretty much limited to urban areas where the planners tried to keep existing neighborhoods intact to the greatest extent practical when the interstates came through. Between the larger cities, the best you can do if avoiding the highway due to an accident or construction is go on the local/state highway that the interstate effectively "replaced". In many areas on I-95, for example, this is US Route 1. But these routes are far from parallel roadways and they slow down to very low speeds within the villages they cross.

Yeah getting drivers used to fewer exits, exiting early or u-turning to come back should improve freeway safety and flow. I don't like the HOV lanes on the far left with various restrictions and higher tolls, but I guess somebody is getting rich from them. They should be eliminated and replaced with left exit options.

@@cifey Trust me you don't want left handed exits. Nothing like traffic backing up on both sides of the highway. Don't believe me visit OKC

Detroit has frontage roads. As an Ohioan that was my first experience

Two ways definitely need to be done away with. Unless some bright young engineer perfects a "Mobius Strip Access Road" bi-directionals will always be dangerous. :⁠-⁠)

There are a few reason’s Amarillo has a lot of road construction. One reason is the weather. It is BOTH cold and hot here with snow most winters and lots of wind, however less humidity than say DFW, SA, Houston, or Austin. In fact they have to close I-40 sometimes for the weather. Also they are trying to build a true loop around the city including moving the western side further west. Finally I would say they seem to practice the more old fashioned way of building roads that takes forever and seems perpetual. All with far less traffic than the big cities in Texas. Trying to play catchup with rest of state and rival Lubbock. IMHO.

There are a lot of frontage roads in the Metro Detroit area.

Having grown up visiting my grandpa in Clearwater, y’all probably need those frontage roads more than Texas does

@@LoneWolf1493 1)Right 2)I forgot there’s frontage roads along US 19 in Pinellas County.

See SR-84 / I-595 west of Ft. Lauderdale - SR-84 was a two-lane highway until about 1980 when it became two lanes in each direction, separated by a huge median. There were many businesses and local side streets on each side. Eventually, I-595 was built in the median with SR-84 as its frontage roads. A similar pattern happened in many other places where parts of a legacy US or State route were upgraded to accommodate a new freeway. (e.g.: US-66 -> I-44 )

@@ElmerCat I forgot about I-595 too.

​@@LoneWolf1493 True, US19 in Clearwater has frontage roads...I stayed at the Hampton Clearwater twice which is along a frontage road.

True. Haven’t seen those in any other state like Texas has them.

The downside is the walkability of these areas becomes even worse. It's entrenching more road usage into communities that desperately need better urban density and should be prioritizing pedestrian access.

@@wolfblaide hahaha. Pedestrians walk the sidewalk

@@biruss yes. And?

@@biruss What sidewalk?

@@dontgetlost4078 frontage roads have sidewalks in the suburban areas

Try accomplishing that feat in an 80,000 pound semi truck! Your car can get up to speed in a few seconds. A truck will enter that ramp doing 10mph. Luckily most people realize they will die if they don't slow down or move over

we have nothing about yielding to off ramps in west texas. but there are plenty of signs about not crossing the double white lines, which separates the slower access roads. seems most people now dont even realize that the color and patterns of the road stripes actually mean something.

Most newer ones have a merge lane for the off-ramp, and there's no need to yield.

@@spamlessaccount Definitely better. Still have some old ones even in the busy metro areas though.

Yep, definitely agree about the yielding to the off ramp. Most people don't, and that is about the only negative I see. I moved to KC from San Antonio and I miss the frontage roads a lot.

True. Overall it looks like Texas cities aren't very interested in walkability.

@@MileageMike485 - The whole state of Texas is not interested in walkability, for good reasons, primarily the huge distances involved in getting from (any) Point A to (any) Point B. Ask Dallas people if it's still a thing to drive from Dallas to Ft. Worth for lunch. Texans were expected to go everywhere on horseback, or in modern times have a pickup truck, Chevy Suburban, or (if they needed to impress people) a Cadillac, Mercedes or Porsche. I think there's a provision in the Texas state constitution covering this.

@@garyd.7372 Honestly the only people in TX who are interested in walkability are those who live in or near Austin.

That isn't true. There are many people in metro areas across Texas interested in walkability. The issue is getting the average person to see the possibilities of good transit and fighting decades of cars=freedom propoganda (which are issues across the US)

@@garyd.7372 One such "good reason" is TxDOT who hasn't left the "tradition" of leveling houses, businesses and amenities for the pleasure of the rich suburban family at the expense of everyone else.

Oh WOW! amazing! lolololol

That’s only in Austin

@@LolLol-ve5xt austin has tons of frontage roads. they spent 10 years building them on mopac expwy downtown

They call them Texas turnarounds.

As a driver myself I absolutely despise Texas. The frontage road system on paper is a great idea. Most drivers pay zero attention to speed double white lines or yield. The system has a free for all mentality and the most aggressive fastest driver will always take advantage. Nothing like having a car decapitate themselves on you dot bumper because yield means go faster

@@mike-sk2li I'm guessing you're not from Texas 🤣.

that’s not permanent, the Polk-Quincy Viaduct is being rebuilt

Because the downtown existed first, and Topeka sensibly didn't ruin their city for a freeway like so many others have done.

Still some 2-way service roads on I-10 west of houston.

there are still plenty of 2 way service roads. but its in smaller towns. and if you know what color the road stripes indicate, its pretty easy to navigate. they often have heavy signage now too, since plenty of people can barely use the signage, much less what the road stripes actually mean.

The point of American cities is to create as much traffic as possible, I thought everyone knew that.

I disagree.

i think you dont understand what a city actually is. its a literal trading hub, the whole point is that you need access to the business/local economy import/export that make it happen. freeways dont make cities, cities make traffic.

FACTS!

Hear hear! They are called service roads in Fort Worth. I'm an Uber and Lyft driver and EVERYONE calls them service roads.

@@michaeljkeeney , yeah as far I know, that’s what they call it around DFW, it’s referred to differently across there, Houston, and San Antonio, not sure how it is around Austin.