[Talk-us] Minimum standards for motorways?

[Nathan Mills]

So if a motorway became sub-standard through a small city with a low speed limit, but still limited access, you think tagging it as secondary or tertiary would be appropriate? Seems to me that it's functioning as a motorway regardless of the speed limit.
I-93 is a pathological case, and since it doesn't even maintain 4 lanes, I'd argue that it should be tagged trunk in that case. US-78 through tupelo is a case where dropping below motorway wouldn't make sense, as it maintains grade separation and all other aspects of a motorway except shoulder width and a lower than expected speed limit.
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> On 1/1/11 5:47 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> > Question: what do people think about minimum standards for tagging
> > something highway=motorway? In other words, would it be reasonable to
> > tag a highway as trunk rather than motorway because it has no
> > shoulders or a low speed limit (40 mph)?
> with the low limit, it might even be sub-trunk.
>
> richard
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