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[[England]] and [[Wales]] are thought to have about 40,000 private roads{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}. They are not normally the responsibility of the local authority, but the authority may provide services such as street lighting (e.g. Avenue Rise, Bushey, Hertfordshire). They normally have to be maintained by residents. They are referred to as '''unadopted roads''' because they have not gone through the statutory process of adoption, for example under Highways Act 1980 s37 or s38. Even if not expressly or implicitly dedicated for public use, public use over time may nonetheless have created public rights of way; though by Part 6 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, in force from 2 May 2006, many public rights of way for motor vehicles in private roads have now been extinguished. |
[[England]] and [[Wales]] are thought to have about 40,000 private roads{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}. They are not normally the responsibility of the local authority, but the authority may provide services such as street lighting (e.g. Avenue Rise, Bushey, Hertfordshire). They normally have to be maintained by residents. They are referred to as '''unadopted roads''' because they have not gone through the statutory process of adoption, for example under Highways Act 1980 s37 or s38. Even if not expressly or implicitly dedicated for public use, public use over time may nonetheless have created public rights of way; though by Part 6 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, in force from 2 May 2006, many public rights of way for motor vehicles in private roads have now been extinguished. |
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[[Private road association]]s manage two-thirds of the road network in Sweden. A 2001 government-commissioned evaluation found that the cost of operation and maintenance of private roads was often less than half the cost of publicly managed roads. However, the same article notes that the government plays an active role in administering these roads.<ref>SOU:2001:67 2001</ref> |
[[Private road association]]s manage two-thirds of the road network in Sweden. A 2001 government-commissioned evaluation found that the cost of operation and maintenance of private roads was often less than half the cost of publicly managed roads. However, the same article notes that the government plays an active role in administering these private roads.<ref>SOU:2001:67 2001</ref> |
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Revision as of 03:16, 12 March 2011
A private road is a road owned and maintained by a private individual, organization, or company rather than by a government.
Consequently, unauthorized use of the road may be considered trespassing, and some of the usual rules of the road may not apply. The most common type of private road is a residential road maintained by a homeowners association, housing co-op, or other group of individual homeowners (e.g. the private places of St. Louis, Missouri, Rossmoor, California, Celebration, Florida, Camp John Hay in Baguio, Borocay, the Ayala and Fort Bonifacio Development between Makati and Pasig, Laredo, Texas, and Ford's Colony near Williamsburg, Virginia). There are also networks of private highways in Italy and other nations. Such highways typically are toll roads whose upkeep is paid for with user fees.[1]
England and Wales are thought to have about 40,000 private roads[citation needed]. They are not normally the responsibility of the local authority, but the authority may provide services such as street lighting (e.g. Avenue Rise, Bushey, Hertfordshire). They normally have to be maintained by residents. They are referred to as unadopted roads because they have not gone through the statutory process of adoption, for example under Highways Act 1980 s37 or s38. Even if not expressly or implicitly dedicated for public use, public use over time may nonetheless have created public rights of way; though by Part 6 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, in force from 2 May 2006, many public rights of way for motor vehicles in private roads have now been extinguished.
Private road associations manage two-thirds of the road network in Sweden. A 2001 government-commissioned evaluation found that the cost of operation and maintenance of private roads was often less than half the cost of publicly managed roads. However, the same article notes that the government plays an active role in administering these private roads.[2]
See also
References
- ^ David T. Beito, From Privies to Boulevards: The Private Supply of Infrastructure in the United States during the Nineteenth Century in Jerry Jenkins and David Sisk, eds., Development by Consent: The Voluntary Supply of Public Goods and Services, San Francisco: ICS Press, 1993, 23–48; and The Formation of Urban Infrastructure through Non-Governmental Planning: The Private Places of St. Louis, 1869–1920, Journal of Urban History 16 (May 1990), 263–301.
- ^ SOU:2001:67 2001