<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:54 PM, John Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> presently traverses a staircase!<br>
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I currently forget which, but a national road in Japan officially becomes a staircase near its terminus, as the government managed "road" is significant older than cars, and for historical reasons, the staircase is legally considered part of the road.<br>
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There are some national primary/trunk roads that have a modern tertiary bypass, but the 200 year old primary bypassed section that goes down a "toboggan route" down a mountain or narrows to less than 2 meters is still considered the primary/trunk route for the same reasons - which is a real pain to reconcile.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Are we overconflating network and classification?</div></div></div></div>