<div>Motorways and trunk roads jointly form the most important tier in the UK. Most countries seem to follow a similar pattern - motorways feed into non-motorway trunk roads to jointly form the top tier. </div>
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<div>Richard<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">2009/8/5 Richard Mann <<a href="mailto:richard.mann.westoxford@googlemail.com">richard.mann.westoxford@googlemail.com</a>>:<br></div>
<div class="im">> Motorway is mainly physical. The point is that it most definitely isn't<br>> defined by importance.<br><br></div>well, in nearly all cases the motorways will be the most important<br>roads. Of course there are also other characteristics and a highly<br>
important footway will never become in no country a motorway (without<br>at least slight modifications ;-) ).<br>
<div class="im"><br>> A motorway is the part of a trunk road that has<br>> grade-separated junctions, and is on a new alignment, or does by some other<br>> means keep slow traffic out of harm's way.<br><br></div>
Yes, I'd agree on grade-separated junctions and keeping slow traffic<br>out, while I don't think that new alignment is necessary neither do I<br>understand, what a trunk-road is (Wikipedia:en="A trunk road, trunk<br>
highway, or strategic road is a major road—usually connecting two or<br>more cities, ports, airports, etc.—which is the recommended route for<br>long-distance and freight traffic. " so I'd say: importance). Though<br>
these criteria apply to some other roads as well, at least in Germany<br>and Italy, that are not motorways but considered a lower class.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> My concern stands - beware putting a statement at the top of a wiki page<br>> that is only partly true.<br><br></div>that's IMHO why I started this discussion: it surely isn't just physical.<br>
<br>cheers,<br><font color="#888888">Martin<br></font></blockquote></div><br>