[Talk-GB] Status regarding the 'A8(M)' near Baillieston, Glasgow

[Jon Pennycook]

Such signs would probably make the road a "non-motorway special road" -
motorways don't usually have such signs in the UK. eg the A3290
https://mapillary.com/map/im/135355215291031 which is restricted south of
the crossing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_road

Jon




On Sat, 21 Jan 2023, 00:49 Timothy Noname, <hervbeof at gmail.com> wrote:

> If there are signs that prohibit cyclists, pedestrians, mopeds and invalid
> vehicles, then it's a motorway. If they aren't prohibited, it's an A road
>
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, 19:40 yasslay, <yasslayosm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I noticed that there's been a bit of a mapping war in the last year or so
>> regarding the status of the
>> 'A8(M)' near Baillieston, Glasgow.
>>
>> While I am not particularly familiar with the area, I looked through the
>> way history (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/412543014 for reference)
>> and found that there'd been a bunch of edits with some users removing the
>> numbering from the A8(M) (one even went as far to remove the motorway
>> status from it) and others who kept on adding the numbering back to the
>> short motorway.
>>
>> In my personal opinion, I think the numbering's been discarded as shown
>> by this bit of Bing Streetside imagery (
>> https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=55.852734%7E-4.09686&lvl=17.0&v=2&sV=1&style=x&dir=93.3&pi=-6.7)
>> which refers to it as a spur of the M8 and the entrance onto the spur from
>> the big roundabout just says A8, which is further reinforced by a counting
>> reference on the DfT's website (
>> https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/manualcountpoints/91185) referring to it
>> as just the A8, but I'd say the appropriate tagging for this would be
>> ref=M8 and highway_authority_ref=A8 or something.
>>
>> I decided to post this here as a way to see what everyone thinks of the
>> situation before any action is taken upon it.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> yasslay
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