[Talk-us] US highway classification

Nathan Mills nathan at nwacg.net
Sun May 29 03:49:09 BST 2011


 On Sat, 28 May 2011 22:39:51 -0400, Anthony wrote:
> 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.

 If it were clearly wrong, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

>> 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?

 I said as much previously. Obviously, I'm only considering the US, 
 given that this is talk-us. I guess I'm just failing to see what use 
 trunk is if it's essentially interchangeable with primary.



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