I'd heard the term "forced road" used in City Hall transportation meetings before. Since it was in the context of "Goulbourn forced road"--i.e. someplace I didn't expect to find myself anywhere soon--I didn't pay the term too much attention.
Then the other day I heard a more recent--and local--reference to the term regarding Richmond Road. I looked it up, and didn't find it in any online dictionary.
I did a google search and had to dig around. Apparently it's primarily a Canadian/Ontario term.
I was quite pleased with myself when the definition I provided was accepted by Urban Dictionary.
I was even more amused by the mugs, t-shirts, coasters and other "forced road" souvenirs you can buy. They have an interesting software that displays the word and definition on the product as though it were a picture, with the text curving with the folds.
Not sure what a forced road actually is? Duh, look it up!
- RG>
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Having practised residential real estate (1986-1995), I am familiar with the term. Out of curiosity, I wondered if there had been any cases about forced roads but since I don't have access to LexisNexis, I had only the free online Supreme Court Reports to look at. There is only one case that I found, in which "forced road" is mentioned and it is only in passing, as a boundary of the lands over which the dispute raged.
It's
Eadie v. Brantford (Township), [1967] S.C.R. 573
at
http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1967/1967scr0-573/1967scr0-573.html
Ha ha! The captcha word for this entry is "gradme"!
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