Municipal road
Municipal road or municipal way is or was a category of roads which are owned and/or maintained by municipalities. Generally, transit sections of higher-class roads through the built-up area is counted as part of the higher-class road, not as a municipal road. Some countries use the term local road or local communication in similar sense.
Situation in various countries
- Gemeindestraße in Germany. There are distinguished Ortsstraßen in built-up area and Gemeindeverbindungsstraßen for connection of municipalities or municipal parts. GVSs exist in several bundeslands only, e.g. Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
- Gemeindestraße in Austria
- Gemeindestraße in Switzerland; this classification express who is the administrator only; it is independent on the importance classification.
- route communale in France
- strada comunale in Italy. Italian municipal roads are maintained by comuni.
- drum comunal in Romania
- droga gminna in Poland; municipal road can belong to one of 5 classes by traffic importance: GP, G, Z, L, D. A municipal road cannot belong to categories S nor A.
- obecní silnice or obecní cesta in Czech lands and Slovakia, Zakarpattia and other countries of Austria-Hungary; municipalities were constituted in 1850 in Austria-Hungary; road law was created separately for individual countries of the empire in 1860s and 1870s. In Czechoslovakia, the term was replaced with the new concept "místní komunikace" since 1961.
- Municipal Road information for Victoria Australia