[Talk-us] Road classification

[Joseph Scanlan]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Alan Brown wrote:

> This is the way I like to think about it - if you're zoomed way out, a 
> map of motorways and trunk roads alone is best: plenty of useful 
> information, but not cluttered.

This philosophy helps justify what you'll find here in the desert south 
west.  For example, US 93 is pretty much the route one takes from Ely, 
through Caliente, to Las Vegas, Nevada.  About 260 miles of that is two 
lane road.  It's marked as highway=trunk not because its some grand 
highway along the eastern edge of the state but because it is *the* 
highway along the eastern edge of the state.

US 95 through California (about 100 miles) is another example. 
Traveling from Las Vegas to Quartszite or Yuma, Arizona state route 95 
is a good alternative but if a routing program insisted on Interstates 
one would find oneself going through Phoenix or Los Angeles.  Kind of a 
long way to go.

I should defend both highways by pointing out they don't see much cross 
traffic.  ;-)

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