<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 9:02 PM Jherome Miguel <<a href="mailto:jheromemiguel@gmail.com">jheromemiguel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" dir="auto"><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" dir="auto">
This might be my Toronto-centricity speaking, but I'm having a tough<br>
time with Owen Sound being mentioned as a important regional<br>
population centre. It's the population of a mid-size neighbourhood.<br><br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For comparison, New York's guidance was that trunks should link the 600 largest communities in the US, but this rule, uniformly applied, would lead to some results that we thought unacceptable. It didn't feel right for Vermont and Wyoming to be entirely devoid of trunk cities. It comes down to how big a 'region' is when considering regionally significant population centres; we USAians certainly thought that a state should have at least one. </div><div><br></div><div>Of course, a trunk road may serve to link cities in neighbouring jurisdictions. Many CA/US border crossings in the East have trunk roads serving them because of population centres on the other side. US 11 keeps its trunk status in northern New York because of its role as a link between US locations and trunk cities such as Cornwall, Brockville and Kingston, even though Massena and Ogdensburg would not rate such treatment. I'd presume that Route 133 in Québec would have the same sort of treatment because of its role as a link between Montréal and New England. </div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes this sort of reasoning elevates relatively small roads to trunks. I don't know what the preferred route is, say, between Duluth and Winnipeg, or Bismarck and Regina, but since there's a general consensus that those are trunk cities, the preferred route should go over trunk roads.</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin</div></div>