[Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

[Paul Johnson]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 8:35 PM Jack Burke <burkejf3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently, someone has taken it on himself to downgrade most (all?)
> highway=trunk roads in the eastern U.S. to just primary.  The odd
> thing is that the very wiki page he cites as his reason fully supports
> keeping them as trunk.  Many of them I'm personally familiar with, and
> even absent the wiki's definition, they actually make more sense as
> trunk from a driving perspective.


The wiki's pretty inconsistent but the generally accepted standard is "it'd
be a motorway if it didn't have intersections" or "it'd be a motorway if it
was dual carriageway".  I think some context would help.
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