[Talk-us] US highway classification

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 5/28/2011 9:13 PM, Nathan Mills wrote:
> So you continue to assert that trunk is most useful if it essentially a
> duplicate of primary?
Maybe a duplicate of your version of primary, but not mine.
>
> Take, as an example, US 84 in western Alabama. Why on earth did you
> change it to trunk when it's a terribly substandard road that isn't even
> a major route between cities of any real size?

It's been rebuilt as a good-quality four-lane in Mississippi, eastern 
Alabama, and Georgia. Alabama has been a little slower at four-laning 
than its neighbors, but US 84 in western Alabama is still a direct route 
connecting the four-laned portions.