<div><div dir="auto">Bonjour!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It has been a rather exasperating conversation in the last few days in regard to a revision of road classifications, especially with trunk. I find in the main thread, I got some mappers who suggest trunk should be used only for expressways, basically a step back from the improvements being made, but of particular concern is with the trunk usage in Quebec, where the tag is used in a lot of different cases, especially south of the St. Lawrence.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">From the current state of road mapping in Quebec, trunk is used in a variety of ways: autoroute segments that aren't controlled-access, expressways, some divided provincial routes, some provincial route realignments, and NHS core routes. How the tag is used, from my observation of the map at high zoom, varies by which side of the St. Lawrence the road is located. Use of trunk for expressways, autoroute segments with at-grade accesses (e.g. A-55 between Saint-Grégory and Saint-Célestin, entire A-955), significant divided segments of 100-series provincial highways and even some realignments of provincial highways that used to enter town centres (e.<span>g. Route 139 between Granby and Cowansville, and the Farnham bypass)</span> tend to be predominant around Greater Montreal and anywhere south of the St. Lawrence. NHS core route usage is predominant on the north side of the St. Lawrence except for some anomalies such as Route 169 near Alma.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Trunks north of the St. Lawrence (save Route 169 near Alma, which isn't an expressway either) can be retained, but with possible extensions south of the St. Lawrence (with links between population centres not yet served by an autoroute like Sherbrooke to Saint-George, Rimouski to Campbelltown, NB, and connections to border crossings where trunk would be proposed for the connection on the US side). For the other cases, how to deal with them varies. Some Greater Montreal trunks can be retained (e.g. Route 132 where it's an expressway-grade road around Kahnawake and Sainte-Catherine), but the others should be retagged (up to motorway if it satisfies factors for it, or down to primary and so on).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also of question is Route 138 from Quebec City to Sept-Îles; it serves a fairly sparse region, and best demoted to primary. Route 389 should perhaps be demoted as well to secondary to line with most of Quebec (200s and 300-series routes are generally secondary), but that may still be reasonably kept as primary as a critical road link to Labrador. The Trans-Labrador is another story, but it's currently a trunk that is too high a classification in a very sparse region with very few roads.</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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