What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

#11700000470 05/08/2006 07:57:01 What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

(Or should I better have asked this in the off-topic board?)

Except International and some neighborhoods of other districts, the City is full of those upper streets that are built above streets or side-walks. "Upper streets" doesn't sound like a correct expression to me, so is there a better one?

That would also go for real cities, of course.

#11700000471 05/08/2006 08:57:57 Re: What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

Elevated roads, maybe? I don't think they can be called "freeways" because they have intersections, traffic signals, and sidewalks.

#11700000472 05/08/2006 09:37:24 Re: What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

Yes I think they are called elevated roads. Checked google images

#11700000473 05/08/2006 10:27:19 Re: What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

"Overpasses" perhaps?

#11700000474 05/08/2006 11:06:03 Re: What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

Yea, the google images speak for themselves, the broken one even looks like that broken road in Rogers Way. The pedestrian ways on the elevated roads in Mega City hardly disqualify them as such, so let's agree on that. SMILEY

#11700000475 05/08/2006 12:01:19 Re: What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

BienTan wrote:
"Overpasses" perhaps?

No, I usually think of overpasses as being streets that go over a freeway or other road, i.e. they allow you to pass over without going through an intersection and disrupting traffic. I think "elevated road" is a good term for these.

#11700000476 05/08/2006 15:29:48 Re: What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

The correct term would be elevated road, though I usually call them "overpasses" or "bridges" over TeamSpeak.

Takes too long to say, "There's a Machine sniper on the elevated...oh, nevermind, already killed me." :p

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#11700000477 05/08/2006 17:40:50 Re: What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

UBAR 1337 Hovering Road Of Doom???

#11700000478 05/08/2006 19:59:05 Re: What's the correct term for the "upper streets" in Mega City?

We would have to ask the DEVs how they referred to them for an accuarate term. "Double Deck" is a term that comes to my mind in the real world.