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

[Paul Johnson]

That sounds about right for defining a motorway.
On Jun 30, 2013 8:37 AM, "Phil! Gold" <phil_g at pobox.com> wrote:

> * Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> [2013-06-30 03:39 -0500]:
> > So then we come back to the question of what exactly is trunk if it isn't
> > used for these kinds of roads?
>
> I've thought of them as something like "really major but not
> Interstate-grade roads".  Primary roads are main roads, obviously, but
> trunks have better throughput.  I mentioned MD 90 earlier; in the same
> region is the easternmost part of US 50 which is a divided highway
> with at-grade intersections and periodic (but not frequent) traffic
> lights.  It's designed to get a lot of people to and from Ocean City,
> MD in an efficient way.  I think it definitely fits as a trunk.
>
> I think most of the things I would consider trunk are divided, but I
> have seen undivided roads that others have tagged trunk and thought,
> "Yeah, that makes sense there."
>
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