[Talk-us] the meaning of trunk in the US

[Richard Welty]

On 3/21/10 11:27 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Does  your language
>
>     there are generally no driveways with direct access.
>
>
> refer to single-family driveways or businesses?
>
the interpretation i've been going with is no driveways, business, 
residential, or agriculture.
> I took a look with GoogleEarth. [It's ok, I'm not mapping that road.] 
> The divided section with 2-lanes plus turn-lanes cut into the median 
> is certainly not a motorway but is pretty good. There are so many turn 
> lanes it's in no way limited.
it's not even remotely a motorway.

> Usage here in Massachusetts, Trunk was used for divided,  limited 
> access that didn't quite make Motorway for reasons i can't elucidate;  
> divided with driveways is is tagged Primary.
>
> So I would say 301 is a Primary, at least in towns and areas where 
> turn lanes are frequent.
> It might be Trunk in the boonies where left turn lanes are far between?
>
> We could use a  biit more guidance in the wiki ..
there are consistency problems, i suspect if you go to different parts 
of the wiki, you can
pick and choose language to support your position. this needs to be 
fixed. it's why i'm
bringing it up here, it's much preferable to talk it out than to have an 
edit war in the
database.

richard

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