[Talk-us] Alaska Highway AK-2 tagging

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 3:05 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> Tod Fitch <tod at fitchfamily.org> writes:
>
> > My reading of the wiki indicates that for the United States a trunk is
> “a high speed Arterial Divided highway that is partially grade separated.”
> [1]
> >
> > What is the problem with having the main road between
> regions/cities/towns being “primary”? Do you like the rendering of trunk
> better?
> >
> > For myself if I planned a driving trip and was expecting a trunk road
> I’d sure be surprised to find areas that are undivided and apparently, from
> other responses in this thread, unpaved in sections.
>
> Agreed.  To me trunk means:
>
>   paved
>   divided
>   very few at grade intersections or driveways (one every few miles is ok)
>

I'm also willing to include single-carriageway (ie, undivided) freeways,
reserving motorway for something identical to substantially typical
Interstate standard fare.
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