[Talk-GB] Estimating coverage

[Nick Austin]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Peter Reed<peter.reed at aligre.co.uk> wrote:
> What do you think – should I be ignoring “motoway_link” in the totals,
> counting it as something else (and if so what?), do we just put this down to
> the way DfT count the numbers, or is it just coincidence that the “motorway”
> numbers are so close?

There are marker posts every 100 yards alongside the hard shoulder of all
motorways.  I don't think slip roads have marker posts so if the DfT are
calculating distance by counting the marker posts then excluding slip
roads sounds a reasonable thing to do.

Nick.