Schedule 1Roads Act (2005 Revision)
Attributes and Characteristics of Categories of Roads
(section 5(7))
Primary Arterial Roads
These are roads —
(a)that are designed to carry large amounts of traffic between major centres of activity;
(b)that are generally designed to accommodate levels of mobility of not less than forty miles per hour or, in special circumstances, not less than thirty miles per hour; and
(c)access to which is permitted only by way of roundabouts, signals, collector roads or access roads, at access points approved by the Roads Authority.
Secondary Arterial Roads
These are roads that —
(a)may interconnect with and augment the functioning of primary arterial roads;
(b)are designed to accommodate trips of moderate length at a lower level of mobility than is prescribed for primary arterial roads or, in special circumstances, levels of mobility of not less than twenty-five miles per hour and not more than fifty miles per hour;
(c)permit more opportunities for access than primary arterial roads; and
(d)permit access to abutting lands using acceleration lanes, deceleration lanes, frontage roads, medians, centre turn lanes, etc., to maximize the movement of traffic.
Collector Roads
These are roads that —
(a)provide access to primary arterial roads and secondary arterial roads; and
(b)permit convenient circulation of traffic within residential neighbourhoods and commercial and industrial areas.
Access Roads
These are roads that —
(a)supplement collector roads providing access to public roads or private roads, and roads in agricultural, commercial or residential areas;
(b)include significantly less access control than primary arterial roads, secondary arterial roads and collector roads, and are generally built out to their maximum lane;
(c)generally divided into two lanes and may include medians, speed humps or other prescribed traffic calming devices, and the posted speed limit is restricted to twenty-five miles per hour or less;
(d)are designed to accommodate levels of mobility of twenty-five miles per hour or less; and
(e)allow for physical traffic calming devices, approved by the Roads Authority, to control speeding and traffic that may prove detrimental to residents of that road.
Access roads shall only be used in urbanised areas where significant land use changes or roadway widening is not perceived as likely.
Public Footpaths
These are public roads or rights of access on which pedestrians may walk but on which vehicles may not be driven or parked except to such limited extent as the Roads Authority may authorise.