STREETS

A public or private thoroughfare used or intended to be used for passage or travel by motor vehicles.  Includes road, avenue, boulevard, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct or other thoroughfare.  "Streets" are further classified by the functions they perform:

(1)    ALLEY - A public or private way permanently reserved as a secondary means of access to ABUTTING property.

(2)    ARTERIAL MINOR - Streets that carry a high volume of traffic for intracounty and intercommunity travel.  These streets normally serve the higher classification streets (interstates and principal arterials) providing access to and from the arterials.  The following streets are classified as "minor arterials" (reference the Marshall Township Comprehensive Plan of 1991): Pleasant Hill Road, Mingo Road, Warrendale-Bayne Road (Red Belt), Warrendale-Bakerstown Road (Red Belt), Wexford-Bayne Road (Route 910, Orange Belt).

(3)    ARTERIAL, PRINCIPAL - Streets that carry a high volume of traffic for intrastate, intercounty and intercity travel.  Traffic on this type of street normally has the right-of-way except in areas of high hazard, where controls are used.  The following street is classified as a "principal arterial" (reference the Marshall Township Comprehensive Plan of 1991): Route 19 (Perry Highway).

(4)    COLLECTOR, MAJOR - Streets that serve intracounty and intercommunity travel, but at a lower volume than arterials; they usually connect to an arterial to provide access to the surrounding land.  Access is generally not directly from this street but from a substreet connected to the collector.  They may serve community shopping areas, schools, parks and cluster developments.  The following streets are classified as major collectors " (reference the Marshall Township Comprehensive Plan of 1991): Wexford Run Road, Brush Creek Road, Knob Road, Freeport Road, Thorn Hill Road and Commonwealth Drive

(5)    COLLECTOR, MINOR - Streets that serve intracommunity travel at a volume below the major collector.  "Minor collector " provide access to the land using lower order streets and sometimes direct access from itself.  The following streets are classified as "minor collectors " (reference the Marshall Township Comprehensive Plan of 1991): Markman Park Road, Neely School Road, Bradford Road, Shenot Road, Spang Road, Woodland Road.

(6)    INTERSTATE - Limited access streets intended to carry large volumes of traffic at high speeds over great distances.  The following streets are classified as "Interstates " (reference the Marshall Township Comprehensive Plan of 1991): Interstate 79, Interstate 76 (Pennsylvania Turnpike).