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

[Evin Fairchild]

But the wiki clearly states that the trunk tag has to do with importance
rather than physical characteristics. The NHS defines roads that are the
most important. Heck, in most states the speed you can drive on a divided
highway is the same as on most straight two lane roads.

It's not classification creep to define the most important non-freeway
roads as trunk. If you have an authoritative source as a basis for the
trunk designation, you're not going to have to worry about people tagging
roads between two small towns as trunk. You can simply explain to the
person that that road isn't in the NHS, politely ask them to change it
back, and move on with your life.

-Evin

On Tue, May 4, 2021, 2:55 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 4:28 PM Evin Fairchild <evindfair at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
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