Lane: rural street, typically set aside for residential areas.
Road: rural street, typically set aside for business district (I believe…). Either that, or simply a generic term for any number of roadways, (i.e., way, court, street, way, loop, circle, etc.).
Drive: short for driveway, a private to semi-private street, typically residential or farmland, otherwise privately owned business in which case the name is typically the family that owns the business (i.e., the Barnes Family Business in Rural City, U.S.A., is located on Barnes Drive).
Court: Assume that this is an urban street, typically found in a business or otherwise communal living district, most likely short for courtyard, in which case a number of business or dwellings would surround one specific areas.
Way: Probably short for Highway, meaning an artery near what is comonly referred to as highway.
And now to check to see how I did.

okay, so I was off on way, but still…

Parkway: No commercial traffic.
Freeway: No tolls
Thruway: Built by an Special Purpose Authority

Yeah, it depends on who you’re marketing to.
My neighborhood is hilarious for this reason: I live in the middle of scrub desert and almost all the streets are named after lush garden flowers as if driving up Daisy Meadows Lane I won’t notice the tumbleweeds.

Parkway: A slow and winding fake thruway which goes through a supposedly park-like setting.
Highway: An often ugly but usually pretty fast road with few lights. A good place to get high while driving, if you’re careful, hence the name. Also, the place you go if you don’t do things ‘my way’.
Freeway: A very slow highway in California. It’s free, but so what.
Thruway: typically a toll road. The East Coast version of a freeway, except it isn’t free.
Route: The primitive, pre-toll road system of highways in the US, now decorated wuth numerous stoplights, auto body shops, Dunkin’ Donuts, and industrial “campuses”.
Lane: A cute street in a pretentious residential development with a faux-English name like ‘Yorkshire Ridings’.
Road: The thing that Jack hits and doesn’t cpome back no more, no more. The type of street nobody wants to live on but that most need to use to get home to their lane, court, way, or drive.
Drive: A landscaped, somewhat curving allegedly pleasant street, that winds through a residential development (Laurel Drive) or turns into a traffic nightmare (Storrow Drive).
Court: A deadend lane. See above.
Way: A West Coast street, often similar to a drive. See above.

This is a question that only God’s very SPECIAL saints can decipher. Please forward $25 to me for the answer. Cdn funds only please as the U.S. greenback tanked today at 92.8 cents/Cdn – lowest in my lifetime and I’m over 50!! I’ve applied for a tuition rebate to the U.S. seminary I attended 1981-85.

Lane: A short, suburban street, lined with white picket fences and numerous smiling children riding colorful bikes with streamers on the handle bars.
Road: A long tree lined and weed-strewn asphalt street with barbed wire fences and gravel driveways, some leading to large houses and others to trailers
Drive: What you turn off of to get onto the Lane
Court: A suburban culdesac with a community basketball goal at the end.
Way: A path to the next place

This reminds me of the axiom that new subdivisions are named after what elements of nature used to be there but are no longer. Thus, “Fox Meadow” is where the meadow was paved over, chasing away all the foxes …

They’re all part of the gay lifestyle?