thoroughfare

noun4

1. •
   A passage; a way through.

   • “I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare. By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?” — 1961
2. •
   A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.

   • East [Street] and West Street form a single thoroughfare running as a backbone through the village, flanked by neat, painted cottages of predominantly 18th-century brick. — 1980
3. •
   An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.
4. •
   The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.

   • The sign leading to the other carriage reads: No thoroughfare.