[Talk-us] US highway classification

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Sun May 29 03:39:51 BST 2011


On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Nathan Mills <nathan at nwacg.net> wrote:
> Primary means (at least according to most of the wiki pages)
> the primary non-motorway route between two cities.

Any wiki pages that say that are clearly wrong.  Trunk is the primary
non-motorway route between two cities.  Yes, it's dumb terminology,
but it's too late to fix that.

> Another example is US-71 between Fort Smith and Texarkana. It is in fact the
> fastest route between Fort Smith and Texarkana, but it is terribly slow
> going. The fact that it is the fastest route between those two regionally
> important cities is adequately described by primary. Why, then, are we
> wasting trunk on something like that?

Do you agree that a road which would be a trunk in one area of the
world might not be a trunk in another area?  Or do I first have to
convince you of that?



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