<div id="yiv6374704278"><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126360053">IMHO an alley is a narrow access way. It functions as a service road, allowing rubbish and ash from the fires to be removed, without going through the smart, front entrance. <div id="yiv6374704278yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613125903007"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv6374704278yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613125903520">I would expect an alley to be too narrow for a vehicle, but you could could come home from the mine, or factory, on your bike, wheel it up the alley and store it in your back yard.</div><div id="yiv6374704278yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126027197"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv6374704278yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126027700">Alleys are also useful for criminals to evade capture, as they are too narrow for police cars to follow and the layout is probably better know to them than to Law Enforcement.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126367787"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126368232">TL;DR</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126378140"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126378628">Alley is a sub-class of service road, so I agree with: </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126378628"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126378628"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126442431">highway=service; service=alley</span></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126423674"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126484168">Peter</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613126424203"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv6374704278ymail_android_signature"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" id="yiv6374704278ymail_android_signature_link" target="_blank" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br clear="none"> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 9:20, Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB</div><div class="yiv6374704278yqt9029802283" id="yiv6374704278yqtfd21370"><div><talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote:</div> </div></div><div class="yiv6374704278yqt9029802283" id="yiv6374704278yqtfd75902"> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6D00F6;"> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">Talk-GB mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" id="yiv6374704278yMail_cursorElementTracker_1613125781922" target="_blank" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br clear="none"> </div> </div></blockquote></div></div></div>