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at milepost 262 in
Rockingham County, Virginia.A
rest area,
travel plaza,
rest stop, or
service area is a public facility, located next to a large thoroughfare such as a highway or
expressway, at which drivers and passengers can refuel, eat, and rest. Other names include
rest and service area (
RSA),
service station,
resto,
service plaza, and
service centre. Facilities include
park-like areas,
fuel stations,
restrooms, and restaurants. Rest areas are common in the United States, Canada, Australia and parts of Europe and
Asia.
General information
Generally, the standards and upkeep of rest areas facilities vary. Rest areas also have parking areas allotted for
buses,
tractor-trailer trucks (big rigs) and recreational vehicles (RVs).
Many government-run rest areas tend to be located in remote and rural areas where there are practically no fast food or full-service restaurants, gas stations, motels, and other traveler services nearby. The location of rest areas are usually marked by a sign on the highway; for example, a sign may read "Next Rest Stop - 10 Kilometres".
Driving information is usually available at these locations, such as posted maps and other local information. Some rest areas have visitor information centers or highway patrol or state trooper stations with staff on duty. There might also be
drinking fountains, vending machines, pay
telephones, a gas station, a
restaurant or a convenience store at a rest area. Many rest areas have picnic areas. Rest areas tend to have traveler information in the form of so-called "
exit guides", which often contain very basic maps and advertisements for motels and tourist attractions.
Privatized commercial rest areas may take a form of a large service center complete with a
gas station (or
Filling station in
UK) , arcade video games and recreation center, and
fast food restaurant, cafeteria, or
food court all under one roof immediately adjacent to the freeway. Some even offer business services, such as automatic teller machines, fax machines, office
cubicles and internet access.
Safety issues
Many rest areas have the reputations of being unsafe with regard to crime, especially at night, since they are situated in remote areas. California's policy is to maintain existing public rest areas, but no longer build new ones due to the cost and difficulty of keeping them safe.
North America
United States
In the United States, rest areas are typically non-commercial facilities that provide, at a minimum, parking and restrooms. Some may have information kiosks, vending machines, and picnic areas, but little else. They are maintained and funded by the
Department of Transportation of the
state governments. For example, rest areas in
California are maintained by
Caltrans.
Some states, like
California, have laws that explicitly prohibit private retailers from occupying rest stops.Cal. Streets and Highways Code Sections 225.5 and 731 . A federal statute passed by Congress also prohibits states from allowing private businesses to occupy rest areas along Interstate highways. The relevant clause of 23 United States Code § 111 states:
The State will not permit automotive service stations or other commercial establishments for serving motor vehicle users to be constructed or located on the rights-of-way of the Interstate System.
The original reason for this clause was to protect innumerable small towns whose survival depended upon providing roadside services; because of it, private truck stops and travel plazas have blossomed into a $171 billion industry in the United States.Gordon Dickson, "Government Work Zone,"
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 August 2003, sec. Metro, p. 3. The clause was immediately followed by an exception for facilities constructed prior to
January 1,
1960, many of which continue to exist as explained further below.
Therefore, the standard practice is that private businesses must buy up real property near existing interchange (road)s and build their own facilities to serve travelers. Such facilities often have signs several hundred feet tall that can be seen from several miles away (so that travelers have adequate time to make a decision). In turn, it is somewhat harder to visit such private facilities, because one has to first exit the freeway and navigate through several intersections to reach a desired business's parking lot, rather than exit directly into a rest area's parking lot. Public rest areas are usually (but not always) positioned so as to not compete with private businesses.
.Special blue signs indicating gas, food, lodging, camping and attractions at an exit can be found on most freeways in North America. Private businesses are permitted to add their logos to these signs by paying the government a small fee.
Attempts to remove the federal ban on privatized rest areas have been generally unsuccessful, due to resistance from existing businesses that have already made enormous capital investments in their existing locations.Thomas Corsi, Robert Windle, A. Michael Knemeyer, "Evaluating the Potential Impact of Interstate Highway Rights-of-Way Commercialization on Economic Activity at Interchanges,"
Transportation Journal, vol. 39, no. 2 (Winter 1999): 16-25.
For example, in 2003, President
George W. Bush's federal highway funding reauthorization bill contained a clause allowing states to start experimenting with privatized rest areas on Interstate highways. The clause was fiercely resisted by the National Association of Truck Stop Owners (NATSO), which argued that allowing such rest areas would shift revenue to state governments (in the form of lease payments) that would have gone to local governments (in the form of property and sales taxes).Anonymous, "NATSO denounces pro-commercialization in highway bill,"
National Petroleum News 95, no. 5, (May 2003): 9. NATSO also argued that by destroying private commercial truck stops, the bill would result in an epidemic of drowsy truck drivers, since such stops currently provide about 90% of the parking spaces used by American truck drivers while in transit.
Welcome centers
A type of rest area often located near state borders in the United States is sometimes called a welcome center. Welcome centers tend to be larger than a regular rest area, and are staffed at peak travel times with one or more employees who advise travelers as to their options. Some welcome centers contain a small museum or at least a basic information kiosk about the state. Because air travel has made it possible to enter and leave many states without crossing the state line at ground level, some states, like California, also have official welcome centers inside major cities far from their state borders.
Exceptions
.
Prior to the creation of the Eisenhower Interstate System, a large number of states east of the Rocky Mountains had already started building and operating their own long-distance intercity toll roads or "turnpikes." In order to help recover construction costs, most turnpike operators leased concession space at rest areas to private businesses. Some turnpikes were never integrated into the Interstate System and never became subject to the federal ban on private businesses, like Florida's Turnpike. As for turnpikes that did become Interstates, all privatized rest areas in operation prior to January 1, 1960 were allowed to continue operating. Generally, most such facilities are simply called rest areas or service plazas, although Illinois calls its facilities
Illinois Tollway oasis.
Some states, such as
Ohio, allow nonprofit organizations to run a concession trailer at rest areas, with limited food options.
Canada
Most of the service centres in Canada are situated in the provinces of
Ontario and
Quebec, along their
400-Series Highways (Ontario) and Autoroute (Quebec) networks.
Ontario
The service centres for
Highway 401 (Ontario)#Service centres were mostly built around 1962. Two more service centres (for eastbound and westbound) were added between Cambridge and Guelph in 1989. In 1993-94, two were placed at the ends of the Greater Toronto Area with one serving eastbound traffic in Mississauga and another for westbound traffic just outside Oshawa; this was to allow travellers to relieve themselves before encountering expected traffic jams inside the heart of the GTA. The Mississauga travel centre was closed on September 30, 2006. There are currently no more planned to be constructed.
Two (along
Highway 400 (Ontario), just south of Barrie, Ontario) are planned to be torn down when the freeway is widened around 2008-2009, and another service station at Cookstown, Ontario has since been expanded into an outlet mall.
Highway 417 (Ontario) has a pair of service centres near
Highway 34 (Ontario).
The service centres in Ontario have private restaurants and establishments. Most of them used to be independently operated; however during the early 1990s they were taken over by major chains such as
Wendy's, Tim Horton's, Mr. Sub, and Nicholby's Express convenience stores (there are few McDonald's, while Burger King used to be at the Woodstock centre before the service station was rebuilt). They also have gas stations (most commonly
Esso, followed by
Shell-Canada, and less commonly Petro-Canada), washrooms, picnic areas, vending machines, and arcade games.
Reese's Corner at the intersection of Highway 21 (Ontario) and Highway 7 (Ontario) is often considered a service centre; even since Highway 7 was bypassed by the freeway Highway 402 (Ontario), 402 travellers can reach it via Exit 25. Lastly,
Weigh station (which are more frequent than service centres) can be used by travellers.
Quebec
In Quebec, the service centres are known as
restos and are located along their Autoroutes, and many of their provincial List of Quebec provincial highways. Only two have gas stations or restaurants, though most of the remainder have vending machines or canteens.
Alberta
The Province of Alberta has service centres along the Trans-Canada Highway/
Highway 1 (Alberta), and along
Alberta Highway 2, with a service centre along the Northbound carriageway of Highway 2, near
Wetaskiwin, Alberta, and the Southbound service centre located in Airdrie, Alberta. There is also a service centre in the town of Valleyview, Alberta, near the village, along
Alberta Highway 43, near the town, and junction with
Alberta Highway 49.
British Columbia
British Columbia has many services centres on its provincial roads, particularly along the Yellowhead Highway/British Columbia Highway 16, the
Coquihalla Highway/Highway 5 (British Columbia), and on
British Columbia Highway 97C, the first service centres built in the province. One notable curiosity is a service centre built along British Columbia Highway 118: it is a minor road connecting two towns to the Yellowhead Highway (Hwy. 16).
Other
Canadian Prairies (
Saskatchewan,
Manitoba) have rest stops located along the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1 (Saskatchewan), however, they are simply places to rest, or go to the washroom; they are not built to such high standards as the 400-Series Highways of Ontario, or the Interstate Highways of America.
Nova Scotia has constructed a small number full-fledged service centres along its
100-Series Highways.
In
New Brunswick, the only rest areas are roadside parks with picnic tables and washrooms operated as a part of the
provincial park system, but many have closed due to cutbacks. Occasionally,
litter barrels are also found along the side of the road.
Europe
United Kingdom
The term "rest area" is not generally used in the United Kingdom. The most common terms are motorway service areas (MSA),
motorway service stations or simply motorway services. As with the rest of the world, these are places where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel, rest, or take refreshments. Almost all the MSA sites in the UK are owned by the
Department for Transport and let on 50-year leases to private operating companies.
Lay-bys
The term
lay-by is used in the
United Kingdom and
Ireland to describe a roadside parking or rest area for drivers. Equivalent terms in the United States are "turnout" or "pullout".
Lay-bys can vary in size from a simple parking bay alongside the carriageway sufficient for one or two cars only, to substantial areas that are separated from the carriageway by verges and can accommodate dozens of vehicles.
They are marked by a rectangular blue sign bearing a white letter P, and there should also be advance warning of lay-bys to give drivers time to slow down safely. In practice, many local authorities neglect to maintain these signs to an adequate degree, and sometimes they are missing entirely.
Lay-bys are beneficial to road safety as they provide somewhere safe for drivers to stop, whether they wish simply to rest, check directions, make a phone call, stretch their legs, or take refreshments. Many roads in the United Kingdom do not have sufficient lay-bys and drivers may have to journey for many miles to find one.
At some larger lay-bys mobile catering is provided by vendors operating from converted
travel trailers,
Trailer (vehicle) or Coach (vehicle)es. These facilities generally offer much better value for money than roadside restaurants and therefore tend to be popular with truckers.
Some lay-bys have parking restrictions to prevent
truck using them as overnight parking, or as a long term storage area for trailers, and some have been permanently closed off by councils because of problems caused by their occupation by
Irish Travellers or other itinerants.
Other countries
In
Malaysia,
Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and
Turkey, rest areas have prayer rooms (musola) for Muslims travelling more than 90 km (marhalah).
In Malaysia, an
overhead bridge restaurant (
OBR) or
overhead restaurant is a special rest area with restaurants above the expressway. Unlike typical laybys and RSAs which are only accessible in one-way direction only, an overhead restaurant is accessible from both directions of the expressway.
In wasei-eigo, a rest area is called a "
:ja:パーキングエリア".
In Thailand, bus travel is common, and long-distance bus rides typically include stops at rest areas designed for bus passengers. These rest stops typically have a cheap noodle or curry restaurant as well as a small store for buying food.
See also
References
External links
- Motorway Services Online
- Motorway Services Trivia website
- Illinois State Toll Highway Authority - Oases Services
- Official Illinois Oases Web Site - Belvidere
Examples of Rest Area locations
- TripCheck - Oregon Department of Transportation
- WSDOT Safety Rest Areas Map
- California List of Safety Roadside Rest Areas
at milepost 262 in Rockingham County, Virginia.A
rest area,
travel plaza,
rest stop, or
service area is a public facility, located next to a large thoroughfare such as a highway or
expressway, at which drivers and passengers can refuel, eat, and rest. Other names include
rest and service area (
RSA),
service station,
resto,
service plaza, and
service centre. Facilities include
park-like areas, fuel stations,
restrooms, and restaurants. Rest areas are common in the United States, Canada,
Australia and parts of Europe and Asia.
General information
Generally, the standards and upkeep of rest areas facilities vary. Rest areas also have parking areas allotted for
buses,
tractor-trailer trucks (big rigs) and
recreational vehicles (RVs).
Many government-run rest areas tend to be located in remote and rural areas where there are practically no fast food or full-service restaurants, gas stations, motels, and other traveler services nearby. The location of rest areas are usually marked by a sign on the highway; for example, a sign may read "Next Rest Stop - 10 Kilometres".
Driving information is usually available at these locations, such as posted maps and other local information. Some rest areas have visitor information centers or
highway patrol or state trooper stations with staff on duty. There might also be
drinking fountains,
vending machines, pay
telephones, a gas station, a restaurant or a
convenience store at a rest area. Many rest areas have
picnic areas. Rest areas tend to have traveler information in the form of so-called "exit guides", which often contain very basic maps and advertisements for
motels and
tourist attractions.
Privatized commercial rest areas may take a form of a large service center complete with a gas station (or
Filling station in
UK) ,
arcade video games and recreation center, and fast food restaurant, cafeteria, or food court all under one roof immediately adjacent to the freeway. Some even offer business services, such as automatic teller machines,
fax machines, office cubicles and
internet access.
Safety issues
Many rest areas have the reputations of being unsafe with regard to crime, especially at night, since they are situated in remote areas. California's policy is to maintain existing public rest areas, but no longer build new ones due to the cost and difficulty of keeping them safe.
North America
United States
In the United States, rest areas are typically non-commercial facilities that provide, at a minimum, parking and restrooms. Some may have information kiosks, vending machines, and picnic areas, but little else. They are maintained and funded by the Department of Transportation of the state governments. For example, rest areas in
California are maintained by
Caltrans.
Some states, like
California, have laws that explicitly prohibit private retailers from occupying rest stops.Cal. Streets and Highways Code Sections 225.5 and 731 . A federal statute passed by Congress also prohibits states from allowing private businesses to occupy rest areas along Interstate highways. The relevant clause of 23 United States Code § 111 states:
The State will not permit automotive service stations or other commercial establishments for serving motor vehicle users to be constructed or located on the rights-of-way of the Interstate System.
The original reason for this clause was to protect innumerable small towns whose survival depended upon providing roadside services; because of it, private truck stops and travel plazas have blossomed into a $171 billion industry in the United States.Gordon Dickson, "Government Work Zone,"
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 August 2003, sec. Metro, p. 3. The clause was immediately followed by an exception for facilities constructed prior to January 1,
1960, many of which continue to exist as explained further below.
Therefore, the standard practice is that private businesses must buy up
real property near existing
interchange (road)s and build their own facilities to serve travelers. Such facilities often have signs several hundred feet tall that can be seen from several miles away (so that travelers have adequate time to make a decision). In turn, it is somewhat harder to visit such private facilities, because one has to first exit the freeway and navigate through several intersections to reach a desired business's parking lot, rather than exit directly into a rest area's parking lot. Public rest areas are usually (but not always) positioned so as to not compete with private businesses.
.Special blue signs indicating gas, food, lodging, camping and attractions at an exit can be found on most freeways in North America. Private businesses are permitted to add their logos to these signs by paying the government a small fee.
Attempts to remove the federal ban on privatized rest areas have been generally unsuccessful, due to resistance from existing businesses that have already made enormous capital investments in their existing locations.Thomas Corsi, Robert Windle, A. Michael Knemeyer, "Evaluating the Potential Impact of Interstate Highway Rights-of-Way Commercialization on Economic Activity at Interchanges,"
Transportation Journal, vol. 39, no. 2 (Winter 1999): 16-25.
For example, in 2003, President George W. Bush's federal highway funding reauthorization bill contained a clause allowing states to start experimenting with privatized rest areas on Interstate highways. The clause was fiercely resisted by the
National Association of Truck Stop Owners (NATSO), which argued that allowing such rest areas would shift revenue to state governments (in the form of lease payments) that would have gone to local governments (in the form of property and sales taxes).Anonymous, "NATSO denounces pro-commercialization in highway bill,"
National Petroleum News 95, no. 5, (May 2003): 9. NATSO also argued that by destroying private commercial truck stops, the bill would result in an epidemic of drowsy truck drivers, since such stops currently provide about 90% of the parking spaces used by American truck drivers while in transit.
Welcome centers
A type of rest area often located near state borders in the United States is sometimes called a welcome center. Welcome centers tend to be larger than a regular rest area, and are staffed at peak travel times with one or more employees who advise travelers as to their options. Some welcome centers contain a small
museum or at least a basic information kiosk about the state. Because air travel has made it possible to enter and leave many states without crossing the state line at ground level, some states, like California, also have official welcome centers inside major cities far from their state borders.
Exceptions
.
Prior to the creation of the Eisenhower Interstate System, a large number of states east of the Rocky Mountains had already started building and operating their own long-distance intercity toll roads or "turnpikes." In order to help recover construction costs, most turnpike operators leased concession space at rest areas to private businesses. Some turnpikes were never integrated into the Interstate System and never became subject to the federal ban on private businesses, like
Florida's Turnpike. As for turnpikes that did become Interstates, all privatized rest areas in operation prior to
January 1, 1960 were allowed to continue operating. Generally, most such facilities are simply called rest areas or service plazas, although Illinois calls its facilities Illinois Tollway oasis.
Some states, such as
Ohio, allow nonprofit organizations to run a concession trailer at rest areas, with limited food options.
Canada
Most of the service centres in Canada are situated in the provinces of
Ontario and Quebec, along their 400-Series Highways (Ontario) and
Autoroute (Quebec) networks.
Ontario
The service centres for
Highway 401 (Ontario)#Service centres were mostly built around 1962. Two more service centres (for eastbound and westbound) were added between Cambridge and Guelph in 1989. In 1993-94, two were placed at the ends of the Greater Toronto Area with one serving eastbound traffic in Mississauga and another for westbound traffic just outside Oshawa; this was to allow travellers to relieve themselves before encountering expected traffic jams inside the heart of the GTA. The Mississauga travel centre was closed on September 30, 2006. There are currently no more planned to be constructed.
Two (along
Highway 400 (Ontario), just south of Barrie, Ontario) are planned to be torn down when the freeway is widened around 2008-
2009, and another service station at Cookstown, Ontario has since been expanded into an outlet mall.
Highway 417 (Ontario) has a pair of service centres near
Highway 34 (Ontario).
The service centres in Ontario have private restaurants and establishments. Most of them used to be independently operated; however during the early 1990s they were taken over by major chains such as
Wendy's,
Tim Horton's,
Mr. Sub, and Nicholby's Express convenience stores (there are few McDonald's, while
Burger King used to be at the Woodstock centre before the service station was rebuilt). They also have
gas stations (most commonly
Esso, followed by Shell-Canada, and less commonly Petro-Canada), washrooms, picnic areas, vending machines, and
arcade games.
Reese's Corner at the intersection of
Highway 21 (Ontario) and Highway 7 (Ontario) is often considered a service centre; even since Highway 7 was bypassed by the freeway
Highway 402 (Ontario), 402 travellers can reach it via Exit 25. Lastly,
Weigh station (which are more frequent than service centres) can be used by travellers.
Quebec
In Quebec, the service centres are known as
restos and are located along their Autoroutes, and many of their provincial List of Quebec provincial highways. Only two have gas stations or restaurants, though most of the remainder have vending machines or canteens.
Alberta
The Province of Alberta has service centres along the
Trans-Canada Highway/
Highway 1 (Alberta), and along
Alberta Highway 2, with a service centre along the Northbound carriageway of Highway 2, near Wetaskiwin, Alberta, and the Southbound service centre located in Airdrie, Alberta. There is also a service centre in the town of
Valleyview, Alberta, near the village, along Alberta Highway 43, near the town, and junction with Alberta Highway 49.
British Columbia
British Columbia has many services centres on its provincial roads, particularly along the
Yellowhead Highway/
British Columbia Highway 16, the Coquihalla Highway/Highway 5 (British Columbia), and on
British Columbia Highway 97C, the first service centres built in the province. One notable curiosity is a service centre built along
British Columbia Highway 118: it is a minor road connecting two towns to the Yellowhead Highway (Hwy. 16).
Other
Canadian Prairies (
Saskatchewan,
Manitoba) have rest stops located along the Trans-Canada Highway (
Highway 1 (Saskatchewan), however, they are simply places to rest, or go to the washroom; they are not built to such high standards as the
400-Series Highways of Ontario, or the Interstate Highways of America.
Nova Scotia has constructed a small number full-fledged service centres along its
100-Series Highways.
In
New Brunswick, the only rest areas are roadside parks with picnic tables and washrooms operated as a part of the
provincial park system, but many have closed due to cutbacks. Occasionally, litter barrels are also found along the side of the road.
Europe
United Kingdom
The term "rest area" is not generally used in the United Kingdom. The most common terms are motorway service areas (MSA),
motorway service stations or simply motorway services. As with the rest of the world, these are places where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel, rest, or take refreshments. Almost all the MSA sites in the UK are owned by the Department for Transport and let on 50-year leases to private operating companies.
Lay-bys
The term
lay-by is used in the United Kingdom and Ireland to describe a roadside parking or rest area for drivers. Equivalent terms in the United States are "turnout" or "pullout".
Lay-bys can vary in size from a simple parking bay alongside the carriageway sufficient for one or two cars only, to substantial areas that are separated from the carriageway by verges and can accommodate dozens of vehicles.
They are marked by a rectangular blue sign bearing a white letter P, and there should also be advance warning of lay-bys to give drivers time to slow down safely. In practice, many local authorities neglect to maintain these signs to an adequate degree, and sometimes they are missing entirely.
Lay-bys are beneficial to
road safety as they provide somewhere safe for drivers to stop, whether they wish simply to rest, check directions, make a phone call, stretch their legs, or take refreshments. Many roads in the United Kingdom do not have sufficient lay-bys and drivers may have to journey for many miles to find one.
At some larger lay-bys mobile catering is provided by vendors operating from converted travel trailers,
Trailer (vehicle) or
Coach (vehicle)es. These facilities generally offer much better value for money than roadside restaurants and therefore tend to be popular with
truckers.
Some lay-bys have parking restrictions to prevent truck using them as overnight parking, or as a long term storage area for trailers, and some have been permanently closed off by councils because of problems caused by their occupation by
Irish Travellers or other itinerants.
Other countries
In Malaysia, Indonesia,
Saudi Arabia and
Turkey, rest areas have prayer rooms (musola) for Muslims travelling more than 90 km (marhalah).
In Malaysia, an
overhead bridge restaurant (
OBR) or
overhead restaurant is a special rest area with
restaurants above the expressway. Unlike typical laybys and RSAs which are only accessible in one-way direction only, an overhead restaurant is accessible from both directions of the expressway.
In wasei-eigo, a rest area is called a ":ja:パーキングエリア".
In Thailand, bus travel is common, and long-distance bus rides typically include stops at rest areas designed for bus passengers. These rest stops typically have a cheap noodle or curry restaurant as well as a small store for buying food.
See also
References
External links
- Motorway Services Online
- Motorway Services Trivia website
- Illinois State Toll Highway Authority - Oases Services
- Official Illinois Oases Web Site - Belvidere
Examples of Rest Area locations
- TripCheck - Oregon Department of Transportation
- WSDOT Safety Rest Areas Map
- California List of Safety Roadside Rest Areas
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