Collector road

Rarely, jurisdictions differentiate major and minor collector roads, the former being generally wider and busier.

Key community functions such as schools, churches, and recreational facilities can often be found on collector roads.

Two-way stops are generally used at intersections with local streets that favour traffic movement on the collector.

Most often, they are planned within a suburban layout and built expressly for that purpose; occasionally, they fill gaps in a grid system between arterial roads.

Urban planners often consider such roads when laying out new areas of development because infrastructure for utilities such as electric power distribution lines, trunk sewers and water mains can be built through the same corridor.