[Talk-GB] Cleeve Hill, Watchet

[Andy Townsend]

 > is this still actually a road? Should it retain its
highway=secondary designation at all?

I'd have thought that "disused:highway=secondary" was appropriate here 
until it actually falls into the sea.  It's not like the Mam Tor road 
where it is in some sense usable, just not for motor traffic.

Best Regards,

Andy


On 28/02/2023 14:06, Andy Allan wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 12:59, ael via Talk-GB <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>> I just noticed this news item:
>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-64784413
>>
>> Presumably this is
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/166615739#map=16/51.1795/-3.3458
>>
>> It presumably needs a new access tag at least? I suspect that we
>> don't have any local mappers in the area.
> Here's the section with the access tags:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/166615742
>
> However, given the contents of the news report - including phrases
> like "The situation with land movement in this part of the cliff is
> terminal; eventually the road is going to disappear into the sea" and
> the DfT intervening with sufficient funds being "highly unlikely to
> materialise" - is this still actually a road? Should it retain its
> highway=secondary designation at all? At what point is this road no
> longer a road?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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