[Talk-us] Motorway vs trunk classification for RI-4 and US-1 in Rhode Island

[Evin Fairchild]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 3:03 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 4:59 PM Evin Fairchild <evindfair at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Disagree with making RI 4 be trunk immediately south of the interchange
>> with Ten Rod Road. The road doesn't cease being a freeway immediately south
>> of the interchange and someone driving it would have no indication that
>> that road ceases to be a freeway until they get to the light at Oak Hill
>> Road. In fact there are two grade separations south of that interchange,
>> one over a railroad and another is an overpass over Lafayette Road.
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> And?  It still ends in an intersection past that.  Not a freeway.
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Yes it is a freeway until the first at grade intersection. This is just
common sense and matches how most freeway endings in the US (outside of
your home state of OK) are tagged.



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>> So let's stick to our standard practice of ending a motorway at the first
>> at grade intersection.
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> And by "standard" you mean "bad practice introduced by NE2 contrary to
> existing practice prior to that".
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NE2 has been banned from OSM for almost eight years now. Why do you keep
bringing him up and blaming him for things? Seems like you're just heading
a dead horse... Please cite a discussion where there is a consensus that
people besides you agree that this approach allegedly introduced by NE2 was
bad practice.

I've been on this talk-us mailing list for many years and this is the first
I've heard of the practice of ending a motorway at the first at-grade
intersection being a practice introduced by NE2. To me I thought it was
just common sense.

-Evin

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