[Talk-ca] Proposed changes to road classification and related stuff

[Kevin Kenny]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 9:02 PM Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>> This might be my Toronto-centricity speaking, but I'm having a tough
>> time with Owen Sound being mentioned as a important regional
>> population centre. It's the population of a mid-size neighbourhood.
>>
>>
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.

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.

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.


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73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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