[talk-ph] Your final say on the proposed road classification scheme

[Timeo Gut]

Due to the low traffic volume served by Batangas-Roxas RoRo I would 
rather view this as a complementary shortcut than an integral part of 
the core road network. I would find it preferable to follow the 
alignment of the Western Nautical Highway i.e. shift trunk from Route 
505 to Route 503/502. This would also complete the north-south backbone 
of Panay.

For the same reason I'd be in favor of downgrading Masbate leg of 
Central Nautical Highway to primary. Given the infrequent ferry service 
it seems that there's just not enough traffic using this section as a 
thoroughfare to justify trunk classification. This would also be more 
consistent relative to the Bohol-Camiguin-Balingoan section.

Talking about Nautical Highways, does anyone know if there actually are 
SRNH ref markers anywhere along these routes? If not maybe we could 
shift this denotation from ref tags to alt_name or short_name.


On 2021-06-12 02:42, Jherome Miguel wrote:
> A route would be marked trunk if it serves two large cities (see list 
> on proposal page) or metro areas. Some trunk routings with ferry 
> segments under the proposal follow Nautical Highway routes. I have 
> marked Route 505 (Arnaldo Boulevard and Baybay in Roxas City) as trunk 
> in the present and future schemes, but if you're suggesting trunk 
> routings with a ferry segment should have multiple scheduled trips 
> every day or the ferry leaving full, which is not the case here due to 
> long trip length (Batangas-Roxas direct being ~17 hours long), then I 
> can drop that in favor of the Mindoro and Caticlan routing. Would also 
> like to note this with the Central Nautical Highway routing 
> (Legazpi-Pilar-Aroroy-Masbate City-Cataingan-Bogo-Cebu 
> City-Tubigon-Jagna-Camiguin-Balingoan). While the Cebu-Legazpi legs of 
> this route, currently tagged trunk, provides a shortcut to the usual 
> routing between the two cities via Eastern Visayas, the Cataingan-Bogo 
> leg has infrequent ferry service, and the Masbate segments downgraded 
> to primary (the Cebu-Bogo legs would remain trunk as it connects with 
> the Bogo-Palompon ferry that forms the Cebu-Ormoc trunk routing); same 
> goes with the Cebu-Bohol-Camiguin-Balingoan legs, which have been long 
> tagged primary.
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