[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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