[Talk-us] High Priority Corridors?

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 23:00:52 GMT 2010


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> NHS is a datapoint for what roads the US DOD thinks are important
> in a military crisis.

You're thinking of the Strategic Highway Network, which, together with
the Interstates, is less than half of the entire NHS mileage. The NHS
is a much larger system of main roads, as well as intermodal
connectors (inventoried separately). "The advantage of NHS is that it
encourages states to focus on a limited number of high-priority routes
and to concentrate on improving them with federal-aid funds."
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/96spring/p96sp2.cfm
[the use of "high-priority routes" here is confusing, since it's not
the same as the "High Priority Corridors" defined by Congress]



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