[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:25 Fernando Trebien <fernando.trebien at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I never thought that emergency access would determine highway
> classification. It seems like a secondary use of the way, not its main
> use/purpose.
>

motor_vehicle=no would exclude most emergency vehicles.

Most pedestrian ways (highway=pedestrian) are physically possible for
> emergency vehicles and usually they are allowed to use them, though
> slowly and carefully.
>

MI 185 isn't a pedestrian road, though, it's the main state highway through
town and just wandering out into traffic from the sidewalk or shoulder
could get you hit by human or horse powered vehicles.

>
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