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  2. Private highways in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Technically, the RCID is a public corporation administered by a five-member Board of Supervisors elected by area landowners. [17] However, through a carefully constructed legal framework, Disney operates the roads and utilities as wholly owned subsidiaries, rather than as a public-private partnership. [citation needed]

  3. Private highway - Wikipedia

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    The Interstate Highway System provided for in the Federal Aid Highway Act was a federally funded, non-toll system. According to Simon Hakim and Edwin Blackstone, "by 1989, [private] roads comprised just 4,657 miles (7,495 km) of the 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) of streets and roads in the United States and only 2,695 miles (4,337 km) out of the 44,759 miles (72,033 km) of the interstate ...

  4. Frontage road - Wikipedia

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    A frontage road (also known as an access road, outer road, service road, feeder road, or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road. A frontage road is often used to provide access to private driveways, shops, houses, industries or farms.

  5. Driveway - Wikipedia

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    A driveway (also called drive in UK English) [1] is a private road for local access to one or a small group of structures owned and maintained by an individual or group. Driveways rarely have traffic lights, but some may if they handle heavy traffic, especially those leading to commercial businesses or parks.

  6. Highway - Wikipedia

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    A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or a translation for motorway, Autobahn, autostrada, autoroute, etc. [1]

  7. Revised statute 2477 - Wikipedia

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    Shared-access advocates claim that neither the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service nor other federal agencies, nor even private landowners have the authority to close RS 2477 roads. Their interpretation of the statute has brought them into conflict with wilderness advocates, the federal government and private landowners.

  8. Who’s responsible for busy Hilton Head roads? Town to ... - AOL

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    Town Council members agreed that in this case the road serves a public use and should be public, not private. The immediate repairs to Main Street and the side streets will cost around $125,000 ...

  9. Private Road - Wikipedia

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    Private Road is a 1971 British drama film directed by Barney Platts-Mills and starring Susan Penhaligon and Bruce Robinson. [2] It was Platts-Mills second feature, following his debut with Bronco Bullfrog (1970).