[Talk-us] Mass Change of Highway Classification in Larimer County Colorado

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 4:28 PM Evin Fairchild <evindfair at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'd say it's pretty well connected given the terrain. In Colorado, there are several east-west roads across the Rockies aside from I-70. These roads are generally pretty straight and fast, something that can't be said for many roads in the Appalachians (aside from the ADHS corridors), and that contributes to the isolation of much of Appalachia.
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> Personally, I'm in agreement with Brian that continuity is important. I find it kind of visually jarring when roads change back and forth between trunk and primary when they switch between being divided to undivided.

I think it reflects the ground truth as it moves between expressway
and an ordinary highway.

> It seems that the trunk thing keeps coming up over and over again and we can never come to an agreement over what roads should be tagged as trunk. So I would like to propose that we tag as trunk any road that is part of the National Highway System, which is a network of roads that includes the Interstate Highway System as well as other roads that are "important to the nation’s economy, defense, and mobility." See link below:

Against this.  I think the existing practice, where trunk is
equivalent to expressways as they exist in the US: motorway-like, but
not quite there.  So like a single carriageway that is limited and
controlled access, or a dual carriageway that is a mix of controlled
and uncontrolled access and high speed, works sufficiently well.  Plus
do we really want to fall into the typical American stereotype of
exaggerating what we are on something like this?  Let's avoid upward
classification creep.