[Talk-us] Tagging a super-two highway (trunk or motorway?)

[Richard Welty]

On 6/25/13 8:49 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:

> It's not the number of lanes that makes the distinction, but the character
> of the road.  People don't expect an undivided motorway, but describing it
> as a trunk will cue most renderers to go for something motorway-like but
> not quite there.  A super-two with a jersey wall or median strip or some
> other physical separation would be a motorway.

right. when i entered the Bennington Bypass (the new VT 279), initially
i classified it as a motorway because of the ramps, but on a revisit i
realized it was undivided and downgraded it to trunk.

to be a motorway i think it needs to be a dual carriage way without
any at grade junctions.

richard