A edge path is a grass or crop strip, and sometimes also a tree, located between the road (the traffic lane) and the sidewalk (sidewalk). Verges is known by dozens of other names, often quite regional; see Terminology, below.
Land often becomes public property, with maintenance usually the responsibility of the city. However, some municipal officials require that adjoining property owners maintain their respective areas, as well as additional walkways or sidewalks.
Benefits include visual aesthetics, increased safety and comfort for pavement users, protection from sprays from passing vehicles, and space for benches, bus stops, streetlights, and other public facilities. Verges is also often a part of sustainability for water conservation or management of urban runoff and water pollution and can provide useful wildlife habitats. Snow that has been plowed on the road in cold climates is often stored in edge areas by default.
In the British Isles, verges are the last locations of habitats for various flora.
The main disadvantage of a road segment is that road rights must be wider, increasing road costs. In some areas, a wider threshold offers opportunities for widening the road in the future, if the use of traffic from the road demands this. For this reason, the path is usually located a considerable distance from the sidewalk.
Video Road verge
Terminology
The term threshold has many similarities and dialects. Some dialects and idiolects have no specific terms for this field, instead of using cunning.
Terms used include:
- Berm: Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Zealand
- Besidewalk
- Boulevard: North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin; United States of America Upper Midwest; Winnipeg, and western Canada; Markham, Ontario
- Boulevard Path: Midwest Upper US
- City grass
- Curb lawn: Kalamazoo, Michigan; Elyria, Ohio; Miami County, Ohio; Greenville, South Carolina
- Small city strip: New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington
- Demon or devilstrip script: Akron, Ohio; Northeast Ohio. The term was once used more widely to refer to the space between tracks on the tram line, a space not wide enough to stand as the car passed.
- Generosity
- Furniture zones, as well as planting zones/furniture or landscape/furniture zones: terms used by urban planners, which indicate their suitability for "street furniture" such as electric poles and fire hydrants, and trees or planters
- Government grass
- Grass Bay: New Jersey
- Grassplot: East Coast of the United States, Pennsylvania
- Green belt
- Hellstrip
- Hellway: Midwest, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
- Island strip: Long Island, New York
- Median: Washington, Oregon
- Natural strips: Australia
- Neutral ground: US Gulf state
- Exit the grass
- Parking path: Ohio
- Parking: Illinois, Iowa, Western United States
- Parking path: Washington, Oregon, Utah, mostly California
- Parkrow: Iowa, Oregon
- Parkway: Greater Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast USA, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Florida, Texas
- Parking path: Austin, Texas; Fort Collins, Colorado
- Pavement: South Africa
- The planting zone: SmartCode/New Urbanist terminology
- Plant a strip: Berkeley, California
- Right-way: Wisconsin, Illinois
- Street allowance: Ottawa, Canada
- Backup
- The ramp edges: Australia
- Roadside: Australia
- Sidewalk buffer
- Sidewalk grass: Georgia
- Chimney plots: Virginia, Maryland, Indiana, Tennessee
- Sidewalks: California, Oregon, Utah, Washington
- Snowboard: Connecticut
- Street benefits: Toronto
- Street easement
- Grass road: Ohio
- Subway: Buffalo, New York
- Swale: South Florida
- Terrace: Great US Lake Area, Missouri
- Tree belt: Massachusetts
- Tree grass or treelawn: Ohio, Indiana, New York, and elsewhere
- Utility path
- Verge: English, New Zealand, Western Australia
- Sample page
Maps Road verge
Urban design and sustainable landscape
In urban and suburban areas, urban runoff from private and civilian properties can be guided by assessments and bioswales for harvesting rainwater and bioretension in "grass trees" - parked zones in rain gardens. This is done to reduce runoff and household water: because they carry water-borne pollution to storm and sewer channels; and for groundwater infiltration from aquifers.
In some cities, such as Santa Monica, California, the city code mandate specifies:
Parkways, the area between the outer edge of the sidewalk and the inside edge of the sidewalk that is a component of the Public Right of Way (PROW) - that the landscape should require little or no irrigation and the area does not produce runoff.
For Santa Monica, another reason for the use of "tree grass" is to reduce the ocean pollution on the beach and the more measurable Santa Monica Bay outside the city. New construction and renovation projects requiring building permits require the submission of landscape designs including garden design plans that demonstrate compliance.
In some cities and counties, such as Portland, Oregon, road and road departments regretted and planted roadside rain gardens to reduce boulevards and highway runoffs. This practice can be useful in areas with independent Storm sewers or combined storms and sanitary channels, reducing pollution frequency, maintenance costs, and releasing unprocessed waste into rivers and seas during rainstorms.
Rural roadside
In some countries, the threshold may be the remaining vegetation corridor after adjacent land has been cleared. A substantial effort to support conservation of waste vegetation is prevalent in Australia, where significant land is managed as part of a road-side conservation strategy by government agencies.
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See also
- Reservation center
- Roadside Conservation
- Shoulders (path)
- Urban forestry
- The length of acre - a traditional term for vast grassy sailing, is used with pasture by flocks or cattle moving from one place to another
- Category: Environmental preservation
References
External links
- Parkway with xeric garden photos
- Satan Strip - long term usage and knowledge
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